Hello everyone,
it seems that the blog was hacked yesterday night. I was able to recover the posts, but the images are lost. I will close the gaps asap so that the posts and pages are readable again.
Sorry for any inconvenience,
Michael.
Hello everyone,
the BLEBee v1.0.0 is available for sale.
Please visit Seeedstudio’s Depot following this link http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/blebee-v100-p-1632.html to get one or more.
Thanks,
Michael.
Hello everyone,
the hunt has ended more quickly as I imagined. The easter egg is hidden behind the app icon in the settings screen. You can see it by double tapping on the icon.
The winner is: Tian Zhang (@KhaosT) He will receive the BLEBee v1.0.0 as soon as it can be shipped from Seeedstudio. Thanks for participating,
Michael.
Hello everyone,
the new BLExplr app v1.5.0 has a hidden easter egg 🙂
If you find it, please make a screenshot and send it over to me using the “E-Mail to the Author” function available in BLExplr and leave your full name as well. If the screenshot shows the easter egg, I will publish the finder on my blog and the finder will get a BLEBee for free 🙂
Happy hunting,
Hello everyone,
the BLE-Shield v2.0.0 now entered Beta Testing state. It is almost finished, but I want to get some makers the possibility to get an early access hands-on before it will be manufactured and available globally. The product description is already available in the Hardware section of this blog: http://www.mkroll.mobi/?page_id=1124 The test sketches for Arduino UNO R3 and the Leonardo are available on github already: https://github.com/michaelkroll/BLE-Shield/tree/master/arduino/
It might be worth reading the product description, since the board has some great new features to upgrade it’s firmware easily.
Hello everyone,
I just finished an early version of an iBeacon compatible firmware for Bluegiga’s BLE112 module. It is not yet optimized for battery life, but it shows the necessary structure for the Advertisement and the Scan response package. The latter on is only used if you’d like to send a local name as well.
The firmware project compiled against the latest v1.2 SDK from Bluegiga is available at github: https://github.
Hello everyone,
initially I was planning to use the ATmega2560, similar to the setup used on Sparkfun’s Mega Pro 3.3V https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10744 to create an Arduino Clone of my own. I played around with an ATmega644p some months ago before I created the BLE-Shield but I stopped working on it due to the lack of spare time invested into other interesting projects. Since the 2560 is somewhat expensive I found out that some people have build Arduino Clones based on the ATmega1284p 40 Pin DIP version.
Hello everyone,
for another production run of BLE-Shields I adjusted some via distances on the PCB demanded by the assembler Seeedstudio. The resulting revision B PCB is already uploaded to my github account which can be accessed through the following link: https://github.com/michaelkroll/BLE-Shield
The firmware v1.0.1 for the revision B board is similar to the revision A one including the adjusted hardware info characteristic to reflect the updated revision. So stay tuned for an slightly adjusted BLE-Shield v1.
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 and of course a smaller programming header for programming a BLE112 or BLE113 modules firmware.
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 much bigger 🙂
The contents of the box is as follows:
Of course the most important part: BLE113 Development Board Quickstart and EULA Documentation and an Import Notice another CC-Debugger a mini USB Cable (for the CC-Debugger) a micro USB Cable (for the BLE113 Development Board) one BLED112 USB Dongle two BLE113 Modules one CR2032 Battery The detailed photo below shows the development board as good as I can show it to you guys using an iPhone camera: