Phase 1 of my project is finished.

I have designed, assembled and successfully tested first two radio modules. Pictures are available in the gallery. As in every design I have made some mistakes which I am going to correct in the next revision of the node boards.

The main problem is to match the antenna to the cc1000 radio module and do a proper PCB design.

Because of this the range is lower then I have expected, but I hope to deal with that. In the meanwhile I'm designing a base station to communicate with the phone and EFIKA.

I've almost all required stuff to run EFIKA. The 30Gb hard drive is coming tomorrow, so I will be able to install Linux. I've an ATX PSU to power up the EFIKA, but I have disconnected the fan so it's rather quiet now :)

Because my EFIKA won't have any monitor attached I'm planning to connect a nice blue LCD to it. If the time allows I hope to do a little I2C <-> HD44780 controller to communicate with the LCD by I2C bus which is on EFIKA board. Getting know how the I2C is implemented in Linux could be useful to connect other hardware do EFIKA.

Here are some pictures:
Gallery