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Thanks I'll definitely take a look at GainSpan. Yeah I don't necessarily want to build everything from the ground up if the components have already been built.

Thanks I'll definitely take a look at GainSpan. Yeah I don't necessarily want to build everything from the ground up if the components have already been built. Here's an example though. Lets take the fitbit as a very basic example. Mainly it's a well written piece software that needs to interact with multiple sensors: gps, gyroscope, heart rate monitor, probably temperature. Now, I can grab a gyro and an arduino project to read and utilize data from that gyro, as well as all the other components... Separately. But I'm not sure where to go from there in order to turn all that into a single embedded system. It's possible I'm just repeating myself and you've already answered my question, lol. Maybe I just haven't gotten my hands dirty enough yet.

lien 15y ago
well, arduino can only take you so far and is limited in where you could go. I've known arduino as a prototyping platform only and there's very little you can go after that. I'd start with the EVK because it has the temperature and light sensor on the board built in. GainSpan did a demo recently to control the board over an iPhone. This is something you can only do with Wi-Fi. Well, once the prototype is done, you should be able to buy the module and look into the module datasheet to develop your own products. Also, note that GainSpan modules currently work with Freescale MCUs so you get access to their customer support team as well. (Basically you could turn on the ARM core in the GainSpan chip or use an external MCU.)