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Art
- 13th April 2012, 01:28
Hi Guys,
Has anyone used a mobile module to connect with a pic?
I'm after a module that requires a SIM card and carrier account
to receive SMS messages and have the content of the SMS readable by the pic.

Any suggestions?

ScaleRobotics
- 13th April 2012, 05:08
Ive never used one. But Olimex makes one with a PIC on board:
http://www.olimex.com/dev/pic-gsm.html

6395

And for something completely different, works on Satellite:
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11088 (this is just a connector board for the satellite hardware)
Per message rates seem to be pretty high. But they have something like 15 pre-defined messages that are free to send. So much of status could be sent in the predefined messages (maybe).

Art
- 13th April 2012, 18:22
Thx,
and the satellite module, nice reasoning that the 10 cents isn't bad for getting your message to space & back :)