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Bluetooth Low Energy Board

Introduction

The BLE Board is based on Anaren's BLE Module A20737. This is one of the easiest to work with Bluetooth Low Energy Modules I have ever worked with, so I made a simple board to make it that much easier to get up and running with Bluetooth Low Energy in your next project.

• Uses the A20737 Module
• FCC certified with PCB Antenna, so no RF design needed
• Powerful ARM Cortex M3 Processor there to run the BLE radio and plenty of room for custom code. Programmable through a simple Serial Interface - no expensive JTAG debuggers needed, just a USB to Serial Converter
• FREE! Web based software to program the module and create an App called Atmosphere
• Free Offline SDK (WICED) available as well HERE
• On board LED, Reset Button, and Recovery Button
• UART, SPI, I2C, GPIO all broken out.
• Bread Board friendly on 0.1" headers
• Detailed tutorials coming soon on BLE to iOS/Android, Device to Device communication, and Beacon Functionality - it's going to be a fun ride! In the mean time, Anaren has tons of information:
  • Main Wiki
  • A20737 Module
  • Detailed Datasheet

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Tutorials

Getting Started

Start Here! This video gives an overview of the board, software installation, how to create a simple program and load it into the board, and even a few things to watch out for:

Video Resources: Atmosphere Portal The .ATMO file used in the video that you can import into atmosphere.

Check this video out to see how easy it is to blink an LED:

Here I hacked my Remote Starter on my car:

Much much more coming soon. I think this will be the best method out there for getting you up and running with Bluetooth Low Energy, so let me know what you think (hit up the contact page to the left)