Items Needed:

• 2 Xbees configured for comms. If you need to configure them see this tutorial: Xbee Basic Setup

• 2 mbed Application Boards

• CoolTerm Terminal (or equivalent terminal ability): Download Home Page (Windows 64-bit link)

Steps:

1. 1 Set Xbee radios into designated spot on mbed Application Boards and plug into computer:
2. Verify that the computer recognized the boards by checking the Computer section of your file browser for Devices with removable Storage. They will be named generically for the appBoard, I recommend you change their names based on their corresponding Xbee's configuration. I will be following the assumption that they are correctly named for the remainder of the tutorial.
3. Download the following code onto the End Device appBoard:

   Import programserialSend

   Code for the End Device to Send serial strings to a coordinator

   Last commit 15 Feb 2015 by Zac Dannelly

4. Download the following code onto the Coordinator appBoard:

   Import programserialGet

   Code to go on the coordinator to receive serial strings with xbee.h

   Last commit 15 Feb 2015 by Zac Dannelly

5. Change the size of the buffer on either end to send more data or less, but make sure to adhere to set values and keep them equal on either end of communication to avoid transmissions issues.

Notes on xbee.h

• The lack of robustness and versatility is being addressed with new functions to come that will allow the user to collect a packet up until a certain character terminator.
• Transmission will cease upon a buffer overflow in the communication. This issue will also be addressed in the updates.