Designing a Quickstart Bluetooth experimenter board. Any interest?
Oldbitcollector (Jeff)
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I did a design for an Xbee board like this a while back, but I've got to be honest, those little Bluetooth modules tend to be a little more intriguing to me. The ones which are set in a friendly breakout board are set as "Slave", while if you can access the other connections on the unit itself, you can configure them as "Master" as well. So I thought a "Servo & More" board with an lean toward these modules might be an interesting item. I've also snuck in a connection for the SD Adapter and options for tying RX/TX to a couple of unused I/O pins with jumpers.
This isn't a finished product yet, there's some cleanup and double checking to do, but you'll get the idea.
Thoughts?
Jeff
This isn't a finished product yet, there's some cleanup and double checking to do, but you'll get the idea.
Thoughts?
Jeff
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Cheers
Mickster
...and I just happened to have found a couple of those little Bluetooth modules hiding in my parts pile!
Does this design still exist? I have also just started working with Xbee.
Cheers!
Mickster
Yes. Absolutely,
Just (please) don't cover the touchpads and LEDs.
Those are the defining features of a Quickstart board and they need to be kept available.
Richard
Richard, Sacrificing the 3-wire connection is a pretty big change. If there's enough folks who would want a run of the standard "Servo and more" board with this section opened up, I'd be more than happy to do a run of them.
Jeff
It's a design I've been pondering over the last few months. I'll see if I can dig it up.
Jeff
I understand.
But 18 of them?
Perhaps the 3-wire stack could be reduced to 8 and located on the left side where
that cap is?