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Nice! BTW, with the new Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, you don't need a $100K license to interface with iOS devices anymore: http://www.mkroll.mobi/?page_id=38

• cobookman 13y ago
  I've used BLE in the past. While its fairly nice, android support is all over the place. Each manufacturer has their own library. Then you need to factor in all that time spent hooking into the various native code libraries. With something like micIO all you'd need is a 4 pole minijack and an HTML5 browser. Aka all smartphones minus windows phone (http://caniuse.com/audio-api http://caniuse.com/audio-api). For low bandwidth applications this can be pretty useful. Think about all those wearable electronics. Obviously work still needs to be done to get micIO to a stable state.
  • ctz 13y ago
    Android has a standardised API for BLE as of 4.3, so you can target that instead of HTC and Samsung's proprietary APIs. But that only covers 12% of Android devices, which is really pretty awful given iOS basically has support across the board since 2011.
  • antihero 13y ago
    Surely if it's a protocol, there exists the possibility to provide an abstraction over all the different native libraries?
• Timmmmbob 13y ago
  This is better IMO: http://www.rfduino.com/ http://www.rfduino.com/ Despite their claims it is not really open source, but you can buy the official dev kit for $100 and it gives you access to the SDK, Soft devices and an SWD programmer (SWD is like JTAG but for ARM). Great hardware though. The only alternative I've seen is the TI chips and they require the purchase of a $3k compiler!