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sandeepmistry / arduino-BLEPeripheral

An Arduino library for creating custom BLE peripherals with Nordic Semiconductor's nRF8001 or nR51822.
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Question: Does anyone know of a "blend micro on steriods". #41

Closed linuxdevel closed 8 years ago

linuxdevel commented 8 years ago

The Blend Micro just has ~28KB flash available which is very little if you want to use it for something a bit more serious than just playing around.. :) It would have been nice to have a "blend micro variant" with ATmega64/128 or even 256... :) (With similar small physical footprint)

Anyone who knows of such a device?

Arne

larsgk commented 8 years ago

Perhaps http://redbearlab.com/blenano/

...which also works with mbed

linuxdevel commented 8 years ago

I know about BLE Nano. But with the USB interface it is "much" bigger. And USB is required for host communication. The blend Micro formfactor is ideal for embedding into a small box.. 😊

larsgk commented 8 years ago

I think you only need the USB board connected when programming ;)

linuxdevel commented 8 years ago

Yes for sure.. However, the device will be partly controlled from a host computer through USB as well as automated sw upgrades. So I need the USB connectivity in a small form factor just like the micro :)

daviddedwin commented 8 years ago

Perhaps a Teensy + ( Tiny circuits / Jaycon systems / Adafruit LE / Olimex ).

sandeepmistry commented 8 years ago

@linuxdevel do you want to stick with an AVR MCU are you open to ARM?

This library will most likely be supporting the new @redbearlab Duo in the future: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1991736672/redbear-duo-a-small-and-powerful-wi-fi-ble-iot-boa

cc/ @Cheong2K

linuxdevel commented 8 years ago

@sandeepmistry the new redbear duo looks promising, but maybe the unit price will be "very high"? :)

Cheong2K commented 8 years ago

@linuxdevel

The Duo price will not be "very high", we will accept new orders from Jan. 2016, it is a board with WiFi + Bluetooth 4.1 (Smart Ready), please visit www.redbear.cc for details.

linuxdevel commented 8 years ago

@Cheong2K

The Duo sure looks promising, Perfect physical footprint and enough flash. Just waiting for it to be available :)

sandeepmistry commented 8 years ago

@linuxdevel can we close this issue now?

sandeepmistry commented 8 years ago

Closing due to lack of activity.