GPRSbee

The Arduino Fio is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328P that runs at 3.3V and 8 MHz. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 8 analog inputs, an on-board resonator, a reset button, and holes for mounting pin headers. It has connections for a Lithium Polymer battery and includes a charge circuit over USB. An XBee socket is available on the bottom of the board.

The Arduino Fio is intended for wireless applications. The user can upload sketches with an a FTDI cable or UARTsbee. The board comes without pre-mounted headers, allowing the use of various types of connectors or direct soldering of wires. The Fio does not accomodate Arduino style shields, so you can't fit a GPRS shield. So if you want an Arduino GPRS Module for the Fio, the GPRSbee is the logical alternative.

 

Just plug the GPRSbee into the bee socket on the bottom of the FIO board and plug a LiPo battery into the GPRSbee. Use the jumper cable to connect the GPRSbee to the BAT socket on the Fio. You can charge the battery by connecting the FIO to a computer or power supply using the USB socket.

If you want to use the software on/off function of the GPRSbee you have to connect a wire from PIN9 on the bee socket to a digital pin on the FIO (in our example sketches we use PIN6 on the FIO).