New on the Shed—the Light Blue Bean

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Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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Digital pin 3 connected to GND on the Bean. — Testing the Light Blue Bean in the Light Blue app and a jumper wire

The Light Blue Bean is a new Arduino compatible board with built-in Bluetooth LE support, and while that isn’t a new idea, the Bean does something different than the other Bluetooth LE enabled Arduino clones I’ve seen so far—it lets you upload your code to the board wirelessly.

We’ve taken a look at the Bean a couple of times during it’s development cycle—including an early look during the pre-order stage, and a more hands-on look when we finally got our hands on the hardware. However now the Bean is shipping, and you can get your your very own on the Maker Shed.

Getting notifications over Bluetooth LE using the Light Blue Bean

To celebrate the release we asked Colin Karpfinger—the founder of Punch Through Design—to build something cool with his Bean, and he certainly came through for us, introducing the Facebook Flagger.

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New on the Shed—the Light Blue Bean | Salute says:

July 31st, 2014 at 5:22 am

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New on the Shedthe Light Blue Bean | NerdlyNews says:

July 31st, 2014 at 6:10 am

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Dan Braun says:

July 31st, 2014 at 9:06 am

Does it work with windows and linux yet? I purchased four of them, and I can’t use them for anything!

Heather Cochran says:

July 31st, 2014 at 9:40 am

Not yet. Windows is projected relatively soon, but Linux is not in their development schedule: http://punchthrough.com/bean/development-schedule/

Till Fischer says:

July 31st, 2014 at 11:46 pm

Shame… any word on Windows IOT / Galileo compability?

ma ku says:

August 1st, 2014 at 4:39 am

ergh, same here have you thought of installing OSx as VM on Windows? not sure if it would work, but am planning to try next weekend

Nouveau sur le Hangar-Blue Bean lumière | TechLab LR says:

July 31st, 2014 at 12:12 pm

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New on the Shed—the Light Blue Bean | MAKE | embeddist says:

July 31st, 2014 at 5:00 pm

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Andre Schoeman says:

August 1st, 2014 at 4:38 am

I too have bought 4 – can’t use them on iPhone 4S…?

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New on the Shed—the Light Blue Bean

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