The module plugs directly onto pins 15-26 of the RPi's P1 header, leaving the remaining pins free for other uses.
Its intended use is to turn an RPi into a border router for a 6LoWPAN network, but it has other uses as well. You can skip the 802.15.4 and just use it as a basic 2.4GHz radio, and you can even hook it up to an Arduino if you want, or anything else with an SPI port and 4 GPIOs.
Linux recently has usable 6LoWPAN and 802.15.4 implementations, as well as a driver for this module, but this is bleeding-edge stuff so you'll want to use the wpan-next kernel as of this writing."
http://openlabs.co/store/Raspberry-Pi-802.15.4-radio
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