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1. Introduction
The Grove - XBee Carrier is a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) base board designed for Bee
series and Grove units. It is primarily suitable for standalone Bee Nodes like RFBee, Wifi Bee
which have ATMega328 onboard and XBee (Zigbee) modules. It is compatible with
RFBee
,
Wifi
Bee
,
XBee
and
Bluetooth Bee
. Besides a Bee receptacle, there are also two Grove connectors. The
board can be powered by a lithium battery or through USB cable. You can use a Wireless charger,
Solar Panel or the USB cable to charge the battery. The FT232RL chip onboard helps in
downloading the program to Bee Module directly.
Bees which do not have ATMega328 like Bluetooth Bee can only be configured by using on-board
FT232RL (USB to UART). Theses Bees are not suitable for standalone applications.
The on-board FT232RL can be used like any other 3.3V USB to UART interface when not
connected to any Bee Modules. This is useful for programming a 3.3V MCU through Serial Port.