Adafruit (PID 1697) Bluefruit LE – Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE 4.0) – nRF8001 Breakout – v1.0

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nRF8001
BLE peripheral front-end with SPI interface to microcontroller
This is a product for ADVANCED USERS – At this time we recommend this product for people who are either OK with using the apps available (Nordic’s UART demo or our Bluefruit LE Connect) or are comfortable with writing iOS apps (and can refer to our App repository). We do not have a tutorial for writing your own iOS or Android BLE app at this time, don’t worry we’re working on one 🙂

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Our Adafruit Bluefruit LE (Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth 4.0) nRF8001 Breakout allows you to establish an easy to use wireless link between your Arduino and any compatible iOS or Android (4.3+) device. It works by simulating a UART device beneath the surface, sending ASCII data from side to side between the devices, letting making a decision what data to send and what to do with it on either end of the connection.

Unlike classic Bluetooth, BLE has no big contracts to sign and no major hoops that you have to jump through to create iOS peripherals that You’ll be able to legally design and distribute in the App Store, which makes it a great choice compared to classic Bluetooth which had (and still has) a large number of restrictions around it on the iOS platform.

And now that Android also officially supports Bluetooth Low Energy (as of Android 4.3), it’s also — after all! — a universal communication channel covering the main mobile operating systems people are the usage of today.

We can get you started super fast with this BLE module which can act like an ‘on a daily basis’ UART data link (with an RX and TX characteristic). Send and receive data up to 10 meters away, from your Arduino to an iOS device. We’ve even made it easy to get started with our very own BLE connect app that has a “serial console” for sending/receiving data and also an ‘arduino pin i/o regulate station” to let you set pins on your Arduino to inputs or outputs, high or low logic or even PWM output, as well as read button presses and analog inputs. You’ll be able to start prototyping your accessory and then use our open source Objective C code to base your new app on!

The nRF8001 is nice in that it is just a BLE ‘peripheral’ (client) front-end, so You’ll be able to use any micrcontroller with SPI to drive it. We have example C++ code for Arduino, which You’ll be able to port to any other microcontroller, but some microcontroller is required – it is not a stand-alone module!
nRF8001
BLE peripheral front-end with SPI interface to microcontroller
This can be a product for ADVANCED USERS – At this time we recommend this product for people who are either OK with the usage of the apps available (Nordic’s UART demo or our Bluefruit LE Connect) or are comfortable with writing iOS apps (and can refer to our App repository). We do not have a tutorial for writing your own iOS or Android BLE app at this time, do not fret we’re working on one 🙂

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