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Re: Robot to robot communication

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Originally Posted by CJO
use the SparkFun "BlueSmIRF" which Kevin Watson advocated before. It is really nice (and fairly cheap) and abides by all FCC laws. If you want to branch out a bit, check out come of the links from the Parallax RF page, to find IC's which you can use at the heart of a radio, be warned, however, that they are not FCC certified; I believe you can still use them for "experimental" purposes, but I would check the rules on that.
I've gotten the BlueSMiRF to work, but it requires an additional step to form a "relationship" between the master/slave Bluetooth devices. It was a pain to setup, but it did work. It would be nice if we could buy the original SMiRF, which was pretty much plug and play.

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