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Bluetooth Unleashed Design Challenge - Finisher Prize Unboxing - blog 15

dougw — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:10:01 GMT

This is just a quick video to show what prizes were received for finishing more than 10 blogs in the Bluetooth Unleashed design challenge.www.youtube.com/watchThank you very much element14 - this is a very useful collection of prizes. For more i...(read more)

Bluetooth Unleashed - Wireless Temperature Probe

shabaz — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:22:51 GMT

For all the parts to this project, click here! Smart Doorbell System IntroductionThis short blog post discusses a wireless temperature probe! It re-uses hardware and software that was designed earlier, for a Smart Doorbell system. All the hardwa...(read more)

Bluetooth Maze - Final Build

carmelito — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:34:11 GMT

This blog post takes you through the building the Bluetooth maze, with multiple top plates as you see in the picture below. The Beaglebone Black Wireless is the brain of the project and is used to run the servo mechanism. Currently, I have two ways t...(read more)

Bluetooth Maze - A Door Knob saves the day

carmelito — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 18:44:07 GMT

In my previous blog post - Bluetooth Maze - Moving servos using MicoBit , I had a huge problem were the 3D parts that I had printed using PLA filament were snapping because of the weight of the MDF. And based on my conversation with a bunch of folks ...(read more)

BTU - Project LOKI.11 - Mobile use

jkutzsch — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 01:01:07 GMT

Time for a short and quick update. I took Project LOKI out for a little trip to the grocery store and wanted to show the results. As you can see it was able to find 3 mac addresses while I was out. Here is our Blue Book ready to ...(read more)

Bluetooth Challenge - Home Security System - Final Post

kedwards@swbell.net — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 23:40:09 GMT

Hello everyone, This is the final post. Which is good. Now that the project is complete I can think of enough enhancements to keep me busy for another 11 weeks. Goal of this project was to see if I could use Bluetooth technology to implemen...(read more)

Smart Doorbell System - Part 10 - Complete Project Video

shabaz — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 22:58:00 GMT

For all the parts to this project, click here! Smart Doorbell System Introduction The Smart Doorbell System is a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) project to build a better doorbell! However, it could also have other uses - to open and close gates, t...(read more)

Bluetooth Maze - Moving servos using MicoBit

carmelito — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:59:52 GMT

As part of this blog post my idea was to post the final steps to build the Bluetooth maze, that is putting the 3D printing and laser cutting components together and have the servo mechanism moving, but I ran into a couple of problems. Basically I hav...(read more)

BT_Sentry : ESP8266 Clients

mcb1 — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:27:40 GMT

This is the 14th of my Blogs for the Bluetooth Unleashed Design ChallengeIt is technically after the Challenge has ended, but is here for completeness. The other posts are here :-BT_Sentry Introduction BT_Sentry : Zero Emission Detection BT_Sent...(read more)

Universal LED Animator #11 - A longer demo

mgal — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:22:39 GMT

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html Hi, this is just a very quick update showing a longer video I made, using my laptop instead of the phone to handle the web interface of the Flask app. It showcases all the available effects and presents the ...(read more)

Stirling Blue - Project Summary - Blog 14

dougw — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:37:36 GMT

This roller coaster project had some ambitious goals because it is always fun to try and stretch to see if you can achieve them. Dealing with 7 MCUs and all the different development environments wasn't too difficult, but it was still lots of work. D...(read more)

Stirling Blue - TNT Ignition - Blog 13

dougw — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:35:14 GMT

This blog wraps up work on the Type-N-Text (TNT) devices. It has come right down to the wire with only hours left in the challenge and I really wanted to get these devices working. I miscalculated the amount of effort the project would take pretty ba...(read more)

PlantProtector3100 - Bernhard - Bluetooth Unleashed #1.2 - Mesh network is not workable

bernhardmayer — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:18:27 GMT

I gave the mesh networking several tries but at the moment it is simply not workable. Mesh network is not workable. At least not now. IMHO the STSW-BNRG-Mesh is not workable for the maker community. There exists this library and there ...(read more)

Bluetooth Challenge - Home Security System - Blog Post X

kedwards@swbell.net — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 05:56:44 GMT

Hello Everyone,This post covers the last of the sensors and the cameras. Included in this post are the Carbon Monoxide and Natural Gas sensors, the Range solenoid value, and both cameras. I decided to document the last of the hardware and software in...(read more)

BT_Sentry : Summary

mcb1 — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 05:32:27 GMT

This is the summary of my Blogs for the Bluetooth Unleashed Design Challenge The other posts are here :-BT_Sentry Introduction BT_Sentry : Zero Emission Detection BT_Sentry : Data Transmission BT_Sentry : Sentry Power BT_Sentry : Raspberry Pi B...(read more)