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.
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.
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.
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/