Editorial Review Add powerful and easy-to-use Bluetooth Low Energy to your robot, art or other electronics project! With BLE now included in modern smart phones and tablets, its fun to add wireless connectivity. So what you really need is the new Adafruit Bluefruit LE SPI Friend! The Bluefruit LE SPI Friend makes it easy to add Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity to anything with 4 or 5 GPIO pins. With SPI, you don't have to worry about baud rates, flow control, or giving up a hardware UART port. Connect to your Arduino or other microcontroller using the common four-pin SPI interface (MISO, MOSI, SCK and CS) plus a 5th GPIO pin for interrupts (to let the Arduino know when data or a response is ready). This multi-function module can do quite a lot! For most people, they'll be very happy to use the standard Nordic UART RX/TX connection profile. In this profile, the Bluefruit acts as a data pipe, that can 'transparently' transmit back and forth from your iOS or Android device. You can use Adafruit's iOS App or Android App, or write your own to communicate with the UART service. If you like Serial communication more than SPI, we also have a version that can talk UART The board is capable of much more than just sending strings over the air! Thanks to an easy to learn AT command set, you have full control over how the device behaves, including the ability to define and manipulate your own GATT Services and Characteristics, or change the way that the device advertises itself for other Bluetooth Low Energy devices to see. You can also use the AT commands to query the die temperature, check the battery voltage, and more, check the connection RSSI or MAC address, and tons more. Really, way too long to list here!
Features 1) The Bluefruit can also act like an HID Keyboard (for devices that support BLE HID) 2) Can become a BLE Heart Rate Monitor (a standard profile for BLE) - you just need to add the pulse-detection circuitry 3) Turn it into a UriBeacon, the Google standard for Bluetooth LE beacons. Just power it and the 'Friend will bleep out a URL to any nearby devices with the UriBeacon app installed. 4) Built in over-the-air bootloading capability so we can keep you updated with the hottest new firmware. Use any Android or iOS device to get updates and install them!
Specification Binding : Electronics Brand : Adafruit EAN : 0602401813755 Label : Adafruit Manufacturer : Adafruit Model : BC35084 PackageDimensions_Weight : 0.02 pounds PackageDimensions : L:3.54 X W:2.56 X H:0.20 ProductGroup : PC Accessory ProductTypeName : NETWORKING_DEVICE Publisher : Adafruit Studio : Adafruit Title : Adafruit Bluefruit LE SPI Friend - Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)