Connect your Arduino Mega or compatible to the cellular network with the SM5100 GSM module shield from Linksprite. If you have an Arduino Uno or compatible, visit this page. If you are looking for tutorials using the SIMCOM SIM900 GSM module, click here.

This is chapter twenty-seven of a series originally titled “Getting Started/Moving Forward with Arduino!” by John Boxall – A tutorial on the Arduino universe. The first chapter is here, the complete series is detailed here.

Updated 18/01/2014

Introduction

The purpose of this tutorial is to have your Arduino Mega to communicate over a GSM mobile telephone network using a shield based on the SM5100B module from Linksprite. We’ve written this as the shield from Sparkfun used in the previous tutorial was somewhat fiddly for use with an Arduino Mega – so this shield is a more convenient alternative:

The original post can be found at:  http://tronixstuff.com/2014/01/18/tutorial-arduino-mega-sm5100b-gsm-cellular/