Hello everyone, after I created some prototypes for instance the BLEtherm, I decided to make a much smaller version of it, but I need to tools in order to accomplish that. What do I mean with tools? Well for instance smaller programming headers to burn an Arduino bootloader, a smaller version of the FTDI header [...]
New MechSheet support page finished
Hello everyone, since Christian and I decided develop more features for MechSheet during the next months, we setup a dedicated domain where we installed another WordPress instance to host MeshSheet related information only. The new support pages can be found through the following link: http://www.mechsheet.mobi Please participate in feature request polls and comment on the [...]
First look at Bluegiga’s Development Kit DKBLE113
Hello everyone, last wednesday I received the DKBLE113 Development Kit from Bluegiga. Today it is time to write an initial article about what is see what’s in the box and compare it with the DKBLE112 I’m already using to develop my hardwares based on BLE technology. On first sight I can say the box is [...]
BLEtherm – An Arduino based Bluetooth Low Energy thermometer
Hello everyone, I was dealing with small embedded systems acting as weather stations for a long time now. I created a simple setup using a Sensirion SHT15 connected to an Arduino board which was posting temperature and humidity values using a Wifi shields some years ago. A great project which has replaced my DIY solution [...]
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Hello everyone, maybe you are familiar with IT-Croud and where the title for this blog post came from. It is some kind of an opener for a little story about a hardware I’m developing with a friend of mine in Zurich. A long time ago I started to play around with Bluetooth Low Energy and [...]
Embedded World 2013
Hello everyone, since I was visiting Embedded World 2013 his year I just wanted to summarize a little bit what I companies I visited and what looks interesting to me. Moreover I grabbed some development tools from different manufacturers to play around with. My main goal visiting Embedded World 2013 was to look around for [...]
BLE-Shield goes NetDuino2
Hello everyone, as promised I tested the BLE-Shield with NetDuino2. As expected the Shields worked without any big problems on this platform as well. I spent about an hour with @tamberg to get my initial code cleaned up and he and Etan Kissling showed my how clean C# code as to look like Finally I [...]
Arduino BLE Shield Kickstarter Project finally ended!
Hello everyone, I’m happy to announce that the BLE-Shield Kickstarter was finished with the shipment of the second batch. We have posted the final update on Kickstarter which you can read here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rowdyrobot/arduino-ble-shield-connecting-the-ios-and-the-ardu/posts Again I wanted to thank all backers who made this project possible. See you on the next project maybe, Michael.
BLE-Shield based on Bluegiga’s BLE112 Module now available
Hello everyone, the BLE-Shield v1.0.o is finally listed in Seeedstudios Bazaar: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/bleshield-based-on-bluegigas-ble112-module-p-1367.html?cPath=132_134 It will be in stock starting at monday february, 4th with a small stock. After the chinese new year we will do another production run of the BLE-Shields. Thanks for your interest in the BLE-Shield, Michael.
BLE-Shield iPhone App Sources available on github
Hello everyone, since I promised an iPhone Sample Application to access the Kickstarter BLE-Shield, I finished the app today and pushed it to the BLE-Shield github repository: https://github.com/michaelkroll/BLE-Shield The user interface is implemented similar to the Messages application of iOS. Yes, correct… you can chat with your BLE-Shield somehow and it’ll answer I will add some [...]
