I am a secondary school teacher, and a programmer and would like to develop a voting pad system for my school. Could anyone give me some advice about what could be good possible candidates for tranmitters and receivers, (either RF of IR).
I need to be able to receive and identify 4 different responses from about 30 units at the same time.
Cheers,
Frank Byrne.
With that many units you could have frequent colisions where two units are trying to transmit at the same time.
so some sort of polling or collision avoidance may need to be impplemented. that'd mean having a receiver and transmitter in each voting unit.
the easiest way may be to start with a bluetooth (if it's got enough range) or wifi (major overkill) or possibly IRDA enabled microcontroller.
the code to read (and debounce etc) the four buttons should be the easiet part.
If you instead go with homebuilt or off-the shelf transmitters and receivers you'll have to do the collision handling yourself.
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