The NXTBee

Fast, long-distance wireless communications for the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT. Communicate Far: Send data over 300 feet. Communicate Fast: High speed communication between NXT's. Communicate Wide: Talk to multiple NXTs and other devices and robots. Communicate Easily: Minimal configuration with advanced options for secure and mesh networking. See what we've done with the NXTBee here.

Detailed Description

The Dexter Industries NXTBee sensor brings the Digi XBee radios to the Lego Mindstorms NXT system! These high-speed long-distance wireless communications sensors allow your NXT to communicate with any other device with an XBee radio. The XBee 802.15 communication protocol is the standard for robots everywhere!

Communicate Far: With the NXTBee you can send information up to 300 ft and the NXTBee PRO up to 1.2 km.

Communicate Fast: The NXTBee utilizes the high speed RS-485 line for high speed communication.

Communicate Wide: The NXTBee uses the XBee protocol which includes point to point networking and mesh networking.

Technical Specs

Performance: NXTBee

• Power output: 1mW (+0 dBm) North American & International version
• Indoor/Urban range: Up to 100 ft (30 m)
• Outdoor/RF line-of-sight range: Up to 300 ft (90 m)
• Operating frequency: 2.4 GHz
• Receiver sensitivity: -92 dBm

Networking

• Spread Spectrum type: DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum)
• Networking topology: Point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, & peer-to-peer
• Error handling: Retries & acknowledgements
• Filtration options: PAN ID, Channel, and 64-bit addresses
• Channel capacity:
• NXTBee: 16 Channels
• NXTBee-PRO: 12 Channels
• Addressing: 65,000 network addresses available for each channel

Certifications: FCC, IC, Europe/ETSI, Australia/Ctick.

More information on the NXTBee can be found in the User Guide here.

Downloads

Visit our Downloads section for blocks, example programs, and projects for the NXTBee.