It has been a great weekend. The weather in Texas finally broke this morning (Labor Day 2011) as it was 68 degrees on my back porch this morning. The wind had been blowing hard all day before and the night before so I knew something was changing.

At 7:30 AM I sat on the porch in my “got dressed” shorts, sippin’ a cup of fresh ground French Roast coffee, munching on my last chocolate walnut brownie, and freezing my a** off! I’m not conditioned to under 70 when it’s been 105 to 115 for several months straight. Never the less, it was a great day to work in the shop.

The picture shows the BS2 micro computer in the foreground with an LED, a photo transistor, a piezo speaker (squeaker would describe it better) and a servo motor all hooked up to the I/O pins. That is the Propeller behind it also with some I/O stuff on board. Both systems are capable of communicating both directions on the wireless XBee network.

My theory has been proven to my satisfaction. Now I will begin to design the real world component application so I can test how those components will really work, then do radio range checks before I switch to the prototype boards.

It sure was nice to have a cool day in the shop.