{"id":4593,"date":"2012-07-08T23:26:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T06:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2012-07-08T23:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T06:26:58","slug":"4593","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/4593\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/201012241%E6%B3%95%E8%90%A8%E8%8A%AC12847482151-300x91.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"91\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hope that all of our U.S. friends enjoyed a fun Fourth of July celebration.\u00a0 My Fourth was very exciting as we celebrated with good old-fashioned firecrackers which I hadn\u2019t had the opportunity to do since I was a child.\u00a0 Firecrackers, as you may or may not know, originated in China over a thousand years ago.\u00a0 They are now used by people all over the world to celebrate holidays and festivals, such as Chinese New Year, Diwali, Purim, and many others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/images\/product\/XBee%20PCB_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So while I was out celebrating Independence Day, my colleagues were preparing for the new release of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/xbee-pcb-antenna-s1-802154-p-1227.html\">XBee PCB Antenna \u2013 S1 (802.15.4)<\/a> and our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/xbee-pro-pcb-antenna-s1-digimesh-24-p-1228.html?cPath=139_140\">XBee Pro PCB Antenna \u2013 S1 (DigiMesh 2.4)<\/a>.\u00a0 They are new and improved versions of our discontinued XBee Chip Antenna S1- (802.15.4) and XBee Pro Chip Antenna \u2013 S1 (DigiMesh 2.4).\u00a0 \u00a0These XBee modules now come with PCB antennas as opposed to chip antennas which allows for a more compact design, and you 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self-healing and self-discovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/images\/product\/BusPiratev3.6%20casev1_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As promised, Dangerous Prototypes has come out with a new acrylic case kit in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/sick-of-beige-basic-case-v1-dp6037-p-1223.html?cPath=178_184\">Sick of Beige Basic Case<\/a> campaign.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/bus-pirate-v36-acrylic-case-v1-dp6037-p-1229.html?cPath=178_184\">Bus Pirate v3.6 Acrylic Case v1 (DP6037)<\/a> has been constructed to fit one of Dangerous Prototypes\u2019 main products, the Bus Pirate.\u00a0 Like all offerings in the Sick of Beige line, it is made out of clear acrylic and easy to assemble.\u00a0 Have a Bus Pirate and sick of beige too?\u00a0 You need one of these.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all for now.\u00a0 Until 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