Lemos’ Ember-based Zigbee offerings have a complete module, a USB stick, and a CF card with with AT command interface.

The AT-command modules from Synapse seem potentially useful. They automatically create self-healing star networks with long range (amplified versions have three mile range). They cost about $25/1. The coordinator, which plugs into the PC and automatically creates the network, costs $180. At first glance is seems that the end devices, which have ADC and other io, don’t even need a micro, but can be used like radio-controlled addressible io, but sadly, no. Otherwise this would be a fun solution for some simple desktop extension ideas.

Wireless Watch and LinuxDevices both report on SquidBee, an open source Zigbee mote initiative out of Spain. OpenBee is an initiative on SourceForge, but appears dead (last update 2005). MeshNetics has opened a version of its MAC layer. Mississippi Sate U offers a Zigbee subset free for personal use. Nordic and Dynastream have hardware for an alternate point-point system optimized for battery.

Nice software interface. Expensive. Kit overview.