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Whats the cheapest way to make short range wireless system?

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whats the cheapest way to get two circuits to communicate without having line of sight?

I can only find Infra red, RF, ultrasonic and bluetooth, all of which are either expensive or need line of sight.

I don't need massive bandwidth or long range. basically all it needs to do is tell the mainboard a 4 bit pattern depending on what switches are turned on and the mainboard to send back another few bits telling it what to do. the units are only about 5m apart, but are behind and inside other obstacles that would block IR and probably ultrasonic

anything I've found so far is $20 per transmitter/receiver at least and is capable of the high Kb per second data transfer over hundreds of metres

anybody got any ideas?
 

rf001-a receiver

If this is a one of a kind system, you can make your own transmitter and receiver.

For the transmitter use a microprocessor crystal in an inverter oscillator. Follow this by an AND gate. One input is from your oscillator. The other input is low for no signalling, and one of two different audio frequency square waves for a transmitted data of one or zero. Put a wire on the AND gate output for an antenna.

For the receiver use a TRF type, antenna, amplifier, diode detector, and PLL to tell which audio tone is used.
 

Re: short range wireless

Maxim has a number of IC's that allow you to create an RF link from scratch with minimal effort. See **broken link removed**
 

Re: short range wireless

... or you can try radios in the ISM bands (868MHz, 915MHz, 2.4GHz etc.)
These radios are available from many companies.
 

Re: short range wireless

Have a look at Micrel's line of RF chips.

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