Want to add super - easy and powerful Bluetooth Low Energy to your FLORA wearable project? Absolutely! With Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) now a standard in modern smartphones and tablets, adding wireless connectivity is a blast. The new Adafruit Flora Bluefruit LE is exactly what you need! It's a breeze to add BLE connectivity to your Flora. Just sew 4 traces or solder 4 wires, and you've got BLE up and running. Start quickly with the Bluefruit App! Use our iOS or Android Bluefruit App to prototype your interactive project fast. Your iOS or Android phone/tablet acts as a controller. There's a color picker, sensors for quaternion/accelerometer/gyro/magnetometer or location (GPS), and an 8 - button control game pad. Connect to the Bluefruit and send wireless commands in under 10 minutes. Advanced hackers will love the standard Nordic UART RX/TX connection profile. The Bluefruit acts as a data pipe, sending data back and forth between your device. You can use our apps or write your own to talk to the UART service. There's so much more you can do! The Bluefruit can work as an HID Keyboard for BLE - HID - supporting devices. It can become a BLE Heart Rate Monitor (just add pulse - detection circuitry). Turn it into a UriBeacon, the Google - standard for BLE beacons, and it'll send out a URL to nearby UriBeacon - app - installed devices. It also has over - the - air bootloading, so you can keep getting the latest firmware using any Android or iOS device. This module has the same firmware as our BLE UART Friend but in a nice rounded shape. You can switch between them with the same working code. It lacks hardware flow control pins, so it's best paired with a microcontroller with hardware serial support, like the Flora. Check out our tutorial for all the details you could want!
Using the Flora Wearable Bluetooth Low Energy Bluefruit LE Module is easy. First, if you're using it with your Flora project, sew 4 traces or solder 4 wires to add Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity. To get started quickly, download the Bluefruit App on your iOS or Android device. You can use your phone or tablet as a controller for your interactive project. For advanced users, you can use the standard Nordic UART RX/TX connection profile and even write your own app to communicate with it. The module can be used in different ways, like an HID Keyboard, a BLE Heart Rate Monitor (you'll need to add pulse - detection circuitry), or a UriBeacon. When using it as a UriBeacon, just power it on and it'll start sending out a URL to nearby devices with the UriBeacon app. Regarding maintenance, since it has over - the - air bootloading, you can easily update the firmware using your Android or iOS device. Make sure to pair it with a microcontroller that has hardware serial support as it doesn't have hardware flow control pins. If you have any questions, refer to our detailed tutorial.
