ZigBee shield for Arduino

Introduction

This page presents an Arduino shield for ZigBee communication. The shield is based on the ATREB233-XPRO board. This board embeds a 2.4GHz Zigbee (802.15.4) Transceiver AT86RF233.

Schematics

As explained previously, the board is build around the 2.4GHz Zigbee (802.15.4) Transceiver AT86RF233.

• The pins GND and 3.3V are for power supply.
• The pins 6, 11, 12 and 13 are for SPI communication.
• The pin 8 is for reseting the AT86RF233.
• The pin 7 if for switching the tranceiver in sleep mode.
• The pin 2 is an interupt, for example when a frame is received.

Here is how the Arduino is connected to the ATREB233-XPRO board.

Here is the general schematic. The 3 LEDs and the button is for debug purposes.

PCB

Rooting the PCB is quite simple, here is the final result:

Download

• Eagle files

  See also

• Autopsy of a ZigBee frame
• OM15020 JN5169 NXP USB Dongle
• IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee chips
• ZigBee frame encryption with AES-128-CCM*
• ZigBee sniffer

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