Bluetooth Low Energy tutorial series (part 1) published.
I’m pleased to announce that the first set of pages for the Bluetooth Smart/Low Energy Tutorial series have been published. Within, you’ll find a BLE crash course, a DIY BLE module breakout board...
View ArticleBLE112 In-system Programmer
I do a lot of work with bluetooth low energy (BLE or bluetooth v4.0) and have a few different BLE modules I’ll turn to, but often end up using the Bluegiga BLE112 (as evidenced by my DIY BLE112...
View ArticleBLE Nano: Review, Tips and Workarounds
I’ve recently had to develop an application using the BLE Nano platform. The BLE Nano is a little module built around the Nordic nRF51822 SoC, along with a minimalist set of support components...
View ArticleRedBear Duo: Intro and QuickStart/HOWTO
Just got my hands on RedBear Lab‘s Duo—what promises to be a great little BLE/WiFi combo—and got some preliminary testing done. By the end of the seven straightforward steps detailed here, you’ll know...
View ArticleAnnouncing NanoKeys: turning a BLE Nano into an HID Keyboard, the easy way
I’m finishing up the docs for NanoKeys, a small BLE Nano (and probably any mbed BLE API supported devices) library that gives you an easy way to create a bluetooth low energy keyboard that you can pair...
View ArticleNanoKeys Released
As promised, the NanoKeys library has been made public and is now available on it’s own project page! One noteworthy change is a modification to the key send/key clear algorithm that allows for much...
View ArticleTransmitting mounds of data in realtime over Bluetooth Low Energy
My client needed to receive a relatively large amount of data on a mobile device, from an embedded system, and process it in near-realtime. The simplest method for communication with a whole host of...
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