Did you know…
A Baby Orangutan B-328 can be be purchased from RobotSimple for $19.45 USD with free worldwide shipping?
Add to that a nRF24L01+ module that can be purchased from their eBay store for $6.93 USD with free worldwide shipping?
That’s $26.38 USD for two modules that can form the basis of most little robot projects, remote control toys or remote sensor applications.
Not affiliated with either store, just a happy customer 🙂
Note : Baby Orangutan may need to be modified to use the two modules together
e.g. I’m removing the LDO voltage regulator and driving both the nRF24L01+ module and the Baby-O using a 3.3V LiFePO4 battery, connecting to the ‘Vout’ pin of the BabyO. Â Connecting 2 LiFePO4 batteries (6.6V) to the Vin gives me some ooomph to drive motors using the onboard TB6612PNG H-bridges.
Oh and those dual shock USB controllers on eBay that go for $6 delivered (‘free worldwide shipping’) have two nice joysticks and 2 motors inside 🙂  Joysticks can easily be interfaced to the Baby-O and the motors can be used for…well anything.
If those nRF24L01+ modules can realistically tx/rx at 1Mb then that is super interesting.
Have a look at this guy’s results : http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16453
That’s probably on a Sparkfun module but these modules are nothing more than a breakout board really.