Hands on with the Light Blue Bean
We took an initial look at Punch Through Design’s Light Blue Bean when they opened for pre-orders. Now we have our hands on the hardware it’s time to take a closer look.
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The Bluetooth LE doc-a-thon at ITP Camp
Getting started using Bluetooth LE is much harder than it should be, and that a lot of great work people are doing is getting dropped on the floor, or worse yet done again. We decided to sit down and do something about that.
Make it Great: Bluetooth Multimedia Remote
I recently put an old laptop in my room as an XBMC computer. However, whenever I wanted to switch the content that was playing, I would have to drag myself out of my warm bed to change the content on the computer. I searched far and wide for a glitch free way to control XBMC. […]
Paper-Thin Arduino Enables DIY Dirigible
Build your own balloon-based blimp with Printoo, a new paper-thin Arduino-compatible microcontroller.
Hacking the CES Scavenger Hunt
It has just been announced that the this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will feature a promotional scavenger hunt based around Apple’s iBeacon technology. Hypothetically speaking, what if you could win the hunt, without ever having to go to CES?
Reverse Engineering the Estimote
It’s actually fairly hard to get your hands on an Estimote developer preview kit—as its still shipping in limited numbers—but I managed to get one of the early developer kits and, predictably, took one of the beacons apart.
Add Bluetooth to Your Lamp for Ambient Weather Updates
Instructables user Tall-drinks wanted to learn how to use the BLE Mini Bluetooth 4.0 Interface from Red Bear Labs so he modded a lamp to display the current weather outlook from OpenWeatherMapAPI. By stuffing an Arduino, the Bluetooth module, a servo, and a cardboard gobo inside the lamp shade, he was able to have his […]
