<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">All, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unfortunately I need to work to support my hobbies! <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Well, there is a new option from Sparkfun and I wanted to share it with all of you. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sparkfun’s Simblee page: <a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/pages/simblee" class="">https://www.sparkfun.com/pages/simblee</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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: </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class="">1) Ability to present a custom user interface on the phone which is described in the Arduino sketch. No mobile programming required.</div><div class="">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.</div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chip</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>