Adafruit Bluefruit BLE Bluetooth Low Energy Boards
- Adafruit 2487, The Adafruit FLORA Wearable Bluefruit Low Energy Module lets you cut through the pile of Bluetooth Classic APIs, development tools & licences, & treat a Bluetooth LE connection just like a serial link. Send & receive keystrokes from your favourite terminal software, from software such as Python (via Py Serial) or from your smartphone. Adafruit have built a software stack right into the Bluetooth LE board, so you can focus on sending & receiving the data you want for your application. Its optional command mode lets you create GATT services & characteristics, make it into a Uri Beacon & set the device advertising. The Uri Beacon is part of the Google " Physical Web" initiative where a Bluetooth LE device broadcasts a URI which smartphone & tablet apps can detect. For example, the URI could lead to your home page if it's a wearable project. Another particularly useful feature is the over the air (OTA) programming from any BLE capable i OS or Android device. If you look closely at the images you will see the DFU button just below the Bluetooth module, DFU stands for " Device Firmware Update". The Bluefruit Friend is based around the very capable MDBT40 chipset (similar to the Nordic n RF51822) with Adafruit's own 100% custom firmware. The MDBT40 has an ARM Cortex M0 core running at 16 M Hz, 256kbytes Flash memory, 32kbytes SRAM. It talks to the host microcontroller over 4 or 5 wire SPI. Supplied as a fully assembled & tested Bluetooth Low Energy board plus a strip of 0.1in. header pins for you to solder on as required. See Adafruit's " Quick Start" guide, part of their massive free tutorial with software examples. They also provide an Android app & an i OS app which can talk BLE to your project. We also supply a range of FLORA, GEMMA & other wearable products. Please note, we do not include a battery with this product. Adafruit 2487 Flora Wearable Bluefruit LE Module BLE