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  • TI SensorTag CC2650 as BLE sniffer - talk to Cypress PSoC

    In a previous post I connected the Texas Instruments SensorTag talk to a Cypress CySmart USB Dongle and made the dongle sniff Bluetooth traffic. This time I'll switch this around. We'll turn the SensorTag into a BLE sniffer, and let it analyze the payload…
  • CC2650 Sensortag/Beaglebone black gatttool error

    Hello all, I am using a beaglebone black to try and connect to the CC2650 sensortag and just read temperature. I have the newest version of Bluez and Debian on the beaglebone and using the most current revision of the sensortag FW. Using this blog post…
  • Farnell element14 Introduces Texas Instruments SimpleLink CC2650 Development Kit

    25 March 2015 , Farnell element14 has introduced the Texas Instruments SimpleLink multi-standard CC2650 development kit , including all the hardware required to evaluate the SimpleLink ultra-low-power wireless MCU platform, to its industry leading development…
  • Bluetooth Low Energy, Three Ways

    Written by Elecia White . In Episode 102 , we spoke with Charles Lohr about the extremely cheap ESP8266 WiFi chip. He has a great write up on getting started . I haven’t gotten my hands on one yet but I sure want to. In the meantime, everyone seems to…
  • Talking BLE with the TI SensorTag CC2650 and the Cypress CySmart USB Dongle

    I have a new The specified item was not found. CC2650 SensorTag. element14 is running a roadtest on that soon: TI CC2650STK SimpleLink IoT SensorTag . I have made a test setup to connect it with the BLE dongle of the Cypress Bluetooth Low Energy PIONEER…
  • Building a Low Power Compact LCD Display - Port to SimpleLink TI-RTOS

    Our Raspberry Pi friends will know the Building a Low Power Compact LCD Display project that shabaz published a while ago. He designed a £5 LCD module and the source code for Raspberry Pi. I've ported it to the TI-RTOS I2C driver. The display code should…
  • Internet of Things (IoT) Kits and Platforms Review

    Introduction Element14 decided to conduct a RoadTest of some of their most comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) kits. The exercise in total included a dozen bits of hardware including the most popular single board computers (SBCs) various microcontroller…
  • BeagleBone Black IoT Project Bundle

    Follow the steps in this guide to join the Internet of Things using NodeJS, Bluetooth and 10 powerful sensors. You will need the BeagleBone Black IoT Solution Kit Buy Kit Buy Kit See All Parts What Exactly are we Using Here? You may have seen this guide…
  • OpenHAB on Beaglebone Black (with SensorTag 2.0)

    In some previous posts, I first set up Bluetooth on the Beaglebone Black and then set up Node-Red to convert the Bluetooth data to MQTT messages. In this third post, I'll be using OpenHAB to receive the MQTT messages, process them and use them for notifications…
  • Beagle Bone Black with IBM cloud and TI Sensor Tag

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    IOT setup using a bluetooth sensor streaming data to the Beaglebone which submits it to the IBM cloud Note: This blog post is being superceded with updates here: BeagleBone Black IoT Project Bundle This is forked from a project HERE , but changed slightly…
  • Node-RED on Beaglebone Black (with SensorTag 2.0)

    In my previous post , I was able to retrieve data from the SensorTag 2.0 on the Beaglebone Black using command line tools such as "hcitool" and "gatttool" . For this post, I'll be setting up Node-RED to collect the SensorTag data automatically and make…
  • BLE on Beaglebone Black (with SensorTag 2.0)

    This post is part of my RoadTest review for the TI CC2650STK SimpleLink IoT SensorTag . As I plan to use the BeagleBoard for data collection, I thought I'd blog about how to get BLE to work on it first. Here we go ... Preparing the BBB Before we jump…
  • CC2650 SensorTag DevPack Samtec Connector Availability?

    What is a good source for purchasing the Samtec LSS-110-01-F-DV-A LSS-110-01-F-DV-A connector used on the Texas Instruments CC2650 Sensor Tag? It would be nice if Element 14 considered stocking this part. This page includes details on building your own…