[TriEmbed] Sorry I missed the meeting last night - have one thing to share

[Robert Gasiorowski]

You may also want to check out CC2650 (especially if you have MSP432 or
other LaunchPad.)

http://www.ti.com/tool/launchxl-cc2650?keyMatch=CC2650%20boosterpack&tisearch=Search-EN-Everything

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Chip McClelland via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> Unfortunately I need to work to support my hobbies!
>
> I have been looking for a way to add Bluetooth LE capabilities to my
> projects.  I have been using Adafruit’s Bluefruit UART friend but it has
> some limitations and Adafruit will not sell the bare module - I asked.  In
> addition, if you want to change the user interface on the iPhone or Android
> handset, you need to learn their respective programming languages - ugh.
>
> Well, there is a new option from Sparkfun and I wanted to share it with
> all of you.
>
> Sparkfun’s Simblee page: https://www.sparkfun.com/pages/simblee
>
> I have ordered some of these and, in reading the manuals while they are in
> transit, I have become quite excited about some of these scenarios:
> 1) Ability to present a custom user interface on the phone which is
> described in the Arduino sketch.  No mobile programming required.
> 2) The Simblee module is a Cortex M0 with more RAM than the Arduino an a
> lot of GPIO pins, it could off-load communications from the Arduino handing
> cellular or Wifi in addition to Bluetooth.  In fact, it may replace the
> Arduino in some of my projects.
> 3) The standard Arduino Wire library supports “multi-master” mode.  So,
> the Arduino and the Simblee could both share information with an i2c FRAM
> chip allowing for the Arduino to control the sensors and the Simblee to
> report the results.
>
> I will be exploring this over the coming weeks but wanted to share my
> enthusiasm for this cool new product - let’s see if it lives up to its
> promise.
>
>
> Chip
>
>
>
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