Arduino

BLE Shield for Arduino Presentation

The BLE Shield for Arduino presentation slides of the yesterdays speech I held at the IoT/ZH Meetup are online now. You can download the slides as single PDF file using this link: http://www.mkroll.mobi/BLE-Shield-4-Arduino-Presentation/BLE-Shield-4-Arduino.pdf As I mentioned during the talk, I’m looking for beta testers in Zurich which will be given a BLE Shield just for the cost of the parts in order to create a solid firmware. Why only Zurich? Well since it is easier to reflash the shield with a new firmware if we encounter issues during the beta test phase.

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Arduino Shield Preorder Survey ended and an update on the availability

I ended the preorder survey, since I think the response I got from the Octopus Survey was amazing. Spending a little time with Numbers, I created this chart to give you an impression where the preorders came from: I had to kick some preorders out, since there was no personal data added. I don’t wanted to use this Info to spam you, but to get an impression, where the demand comes from and send you a personal email, once the Shield is available and thank you for the participation in the survey.

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Arduino Shield Eagle and Firmware (v0.9.2) files Open Sourced!

After some time I finally managed to look at license types, and I’ve chosen the same licenses as the Arduino boards are licensed. The Eagle files (Board and Schematic) are licensed under the Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 and the firmware under LGPL. Please modify the PCB and the firmware as you like and please share your ideas, changes and additions here on my blog. I hope to give you all who demanded the sources and PCB files a better insight of what is happening in the firmware of the shield and show you that it is not a kind of rocket science behind it.

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Arduino Shield Prototype finished.

After spending some time on hardware- and software development I finally finished a first working prototype of an Arduino Bluetooth Low Energy Shield. A detailed story about the shield shown below can be found in the Hardware Section or directly using this link: http://www.mkroll.mobi/?page_id=386 Read what others are writing about the BLE Shield: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/19/bluetooth-4-0-from-arduino-to-iphone-no-jailbreaking-no-mfi/ http://transalchemy.com/2012/03/19/bluetooth-4-0-from-arduino-to-iphone-no-jailbreaking-no-mfi/ http://houseofmods.com/2012/03/bluetooth-4-0-from-arduino-to-iphone-no-jailbreaking-no-mfi/ http://high-technology.info/bluetooth-4-0-from-arduino-to-iphone-no-jailbreaking-no-mfi/ http://pricegadgetreviews.com/bluetooth-4-0-from-arduino-to-iphone-no-jailbreaking-no-mfi/ http://www.itclips.net/2012/03/20/bluetooth-4-0-from-arduino-to-iphone-no-jailbreaking-no-mfi/ http://dev.squarecows.com/2012/03/19/bluetooth-4-0-from-arduino-to-iphone-no-jailbreaking-no-mfi/