XBee development for Arduino

If your robot platform uses Arduino as the MCU model, we can use XBee on the Arduino board. Several Arduino shields for XBee are available as well. Some robot platforms based on Arduino even provide an XBee shield in the board.

In this section, we'll develop an application to communicate between our computer and an XBee module on an Arduino board. We need two XBee modules for this demo.

Configuring the XBee module

We're using a mesh network for communication among XBees. In the previous section, we applied DigiMesh firmware to our XBee modules. In this demo, we'll develop an application to send data from XBee on an Arduino to XBee on a computer.

First, we configure all XBee modules using XCTU. After opening XBee using XCTU, we can start to configure it. Set Destination Address Low (DL) with FFFF. You can see it here:

You also need to set API Enable (AP) as Transparent Mode [0], as shown in the following figure. If finished, you can write all changes to the XBee:

Implement...