Last week I went to a ZigBee workshop in Hannover where I was able to get some basic information about ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4 and Rabbit micro controller. It was a very interesting workshop. On the workshop I got this RCM4510W evaluation kit containing an USB connected XBee module, two Rabbit controller boards with a mounted XBee module and some additional parts you need to run your first applications. Unfortunately I was not able to get the whole kit which is based on XBee modules working. This is not the first time that I get an "evaluation kit" where I have massive problems to get it up and running. It seems to be very hard for some companies to provide a kit that contains components (hard and software) that are tested to work together out of the box. Maybe it's because after the kit was initially put together parts are taken from the current production without further checking their compatibility with the kit. In this case first of all it was impossible to flash the Rabbit controller which was part of t
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