Hello everyone the BLE-Shield v3.0.0 is now available for sale in Seeedstudio’s Bazaar. Please follow this link to navigate to it’s product page. Thank you very much Michael

Hi Bluetooth developers today I received the brandnew DKBT Bluetooth Smart Ready Development Kit including the following parts: DKBT Development Kit main board BT121 Bluetooth Smart Ready carrier board Micro USB cable 1.5V AAA battery Printed Quickstart guide and EULA Of course the moment the kit was in my mailbox was exciting enough, but after I flipped over the first page of the quickstart guide, I saw illustrations of BLExplr, my BLE explorer app which is available in the Apple App Store, describing the use of the Bluetooth Smart demo with iOS.

Hello BLEBee users, after I’m in contact with the guys at Safecast for quite a long time now I want to share some photos on how they are using the BLEBee with their bGeigeNano to read data from the bGeigeNano directly to an iPhone (You can see the BLEBee in the video) The final design of the BLEBee v1.0.0 especially the size was inspired by feedback of Rob Oudendijk and Pieter Franken.

Hello Makers! A while ago Matthias Ringwald @mringwal (co-founder of BlueKitchen GmbH) and I were discussing a BTstack port for AVR-based embedded systems such as the Arduino. As an outcome, we co-designed the BTstack LE Arduino Shield which is now available for sale at Seeedstudio’s Bazaar. The BTstack LE Arduino Shield is supported on the following boards – with at least 64 kB Flash (tested with Arduino.cc IDE v1.6.4): Arduino Mega 2560 R3 Arduino Mega 2560 Arduino Mega 1280 Sparkfun Mega 3.

Hello everyone the BLEBee is now available for sale in Seeedstudio’s Bazaar. Please follow this link to navigate to it’s product page BLEBee v2.0.0 Thank you very much Michael

Hello everyone since the production of the BLE-Shield v3.0.0 is finally ramping up, I added a new product page showing a photo and descibing it features. Please take a look at the BLE-Shield v3.0.0 product page for futher details. Te design files are already available on github and the board will be available soon in Seeedstudio’s Bazaar. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions regarding the new module.

Hello everyone since the production of the BLEBee v2.0.0 is finally ramping up, I added a new product page showing a photo and descibing it features. Please take a look at the BLEBee v2.0.0 product page for futher details. The design files are already available on github and the board as of June 12th, 2015 is available in Seeedstudio’s Bazaar using this link. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions regarding the new module.

Hello everyone, a few days ago I came accross this great add-on board for the Arduino UNO with DIP socket ATMega328: http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/arduino/arduino-uno-pro The Arduino UNO*Pro – Upgrade which transforms your Arduino UNO powered by a ATMega328 into a pro version running an ATMega1284p. Once I read about it on twitter I just ordered two of them to see how it goes. Just removed the old uC, added the extension board and copied the board files into the hardware folder as described in the product description page at hobbytronics.

Hello everyone well maybe it is time to tell you about the project that still keeps me busy. Of course I’m not a company behind all the developments so it takes a little more time 🙂 The initial idea was similar to what Punch Through Design finally delivered with their Bean. If you are not familiar with the Bean you can take a look at it here, but promise to come back after you visited the Bean description.

Hello everyone well it does not stop. There was another Development Kit delivered to my door last week. The Bluegiga DKWF121 Development Kit for their Wifi WK121 Module. I was thinking a long time to get a first hands-on on this Wifi module since a few peaople already asked my if I can help them during development of IoT devices using the WF121. No w I can. Hopefully I will get some spare time to play around with the demos provided in the SDK and give some feedback about how to use it.