News

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 Bluetooth Low Energy solutions and of course meet the support BlueGiga guys to talk to them in person.

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 added an additional folder called “netmf” to my BLE-Shield github repository https://github.com/michaelkroll/BLE-Shield where you can now find a complete Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express project which has been tested with a NetDuino2 board running .

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.

No, no it’s not the iPad-Mini. After I created the BLE-Shield in Arduino Shield form factor, I shrinked the BLE-Shield to an XBEE size form factor and added even a little more functionality. The idea behind it was quite simple. Now that I developed the BLE-Shield, why not shrink it to an XBEE form factor, name it BLEbee and use it with an Arduino FIO or the Arduino Wireless Shield, where an XBEE module can be used.

Hi, since I started the Kickstarter project, is now already funded and there are still 13 days to go, I started to work on the final PCB design and the final firmware as well. The v1.0.0 is already available in a Kickstarter Project update, but not yet on my blog. So I will change this now and add this to the blog as well. I’ll post the schematic and the updated boardfiles as soon as I soldered an additional engineering sample of this board to prove that there are now last minute bugs added while changing the board slightly.

Hello BLE112 hardware developers, to make hardware development a little easier, I simply created a BLE112-A Breakout board for you that can be used on a breadboard. I added three 100nF block capacitors and the programming header for the CC-Debugger to the breakout board. I’m open for suggestions, since the board is in version 0.5.0. The eagle design files and the PDFs of the schematic and board files can be found in the “BLE Other Files” box on the blog’s main page.

Hello everyone, During this week my BR-EVAL-LE4.0-S2A and BR-XB-LE4.0-S2 orders of Blueradios arrived. I have not yet had a chance to play around with it that much, but I hope to test it soon. Moreover I’m in good contact with other manufacturers as well, as I will test and write about other development kits is the future. Thanks, Michael.

The Kickstarter project “tōd:Connect Real World Actions to Mobile Devices and the Web” is now online, and I recommend all readers of my blog to visit the Kickstarter.com pages since I’m involved in this project as well. For people who were interested in the location micro cells I created as my first BLE hardware can get some tōd’s since they can offer similar functionality without need to change the firmware. The location microcells were just a feasibility study on how to create a small hardware to communicate with an iPhone4S and are now discontinued after tōd has been announced.

The Bluetooth RFID Reader pages in the hardware section has been updated now. I finally added pictures of the RFID Reader in a plastic enclosure printed by shapeways.com to the post. I’m currently preparing a short demo video showing the RFID reader connected to the iPhone in action.

Hello everyone, Today I found an old article summarizing my Ph.D. thesis work which is in german. The title of the article is “Körperwelten auf die Festplatte gebannt” and can be downloaded as PDF document from the following link: http://www.vmk-verlag.de/data/108_4.pdf If you are interested in more details concerning the project please drop me a line. Cheers, Michael.