<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Mike, </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Yes, this is an interesting new entrant into the cellular IOT space. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Blue Wireless reached out to me last week and there are a few cool things I learned:</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Blue Wireless is focused on connectivity, does not include the microcontroller</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- They have a carrier board with a feather header so you have lots of choices </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- They also sell a module you could use with something like the new Raspberry Pi Micro - i2c or UART communications between the two</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- 500Mb does not sound like much but for hourly web hooks for about 16 hours a day, it is likely enough to last 10 years</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- One of the early investors has ties to AT&T, hence the sweet deal on connectivity - but they are AT&T exclusive for now on LTE Cat1 and Cat M1 (2G/3G fallback)</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- They are the only Cellular IOT vendor backed by the VC Sequoia - for what that is worth</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">I will be getting a sample next week - looking forward to taking it for a spin.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Thanks for sharing.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Chip</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div> <br> <div class="gmail_signature"><div>____________________________________</div>Chip McClelland<div><a href="mailto:chip@mcclellands.org">chip@mcclellands.org</a></div><div>919-624-5562</div></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On April 9, 2021 at 1:00:14 PM, <a href="mailto:triembed-request@triembed.org">triembed-request@triembed.org</a> (<a href="mailto:triembed-request@triembed.org">triembed-request@triembed.org</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>Send TriEmbed mailing list submissions to
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<br>Ran across this interesting little device. Hope it might help someone on a
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<br><a href="https://www.hackster.io/blues-wireless/products/notecard/specs">https://www.hackster.io/blues-wireless/products/notecard/specs</a>
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<br>Have a great weekend,
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<br>Mike
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