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by bravo22 12y ago
Robert, I'm fairly certain that is not possible with any BLE system. Main obstacle is that a slave device, such as a beacon, can only be connected to a single master at a time to do things like stock look up or other things you've
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by bravo22 12y ago
We're about a month away from releasing really inexpesnive iBeacons w/ sensors, ARM, etc. -- sub $10. You can program them to do additional processing if you want. What's your email address? Would love to have you as part of
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by bravo22 12y ago
Thanks for answering Zach! Your answer certainly helps make it more clear. To use your feature rich cloud, would one have to use your spark core board or one can roll own CC3000 based board + your open source firmware but pay you and have i
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by bravo22 12y ago
Thank David. Thanks so much for answering! Couple of questions: - Are you always sticking w/ CC3000 or are there other WiFi modules you intend to support? My main question, might have gone unnoticed in my long post... Is there a servi
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by bravo22 12y ago
Right, I agree. That is what I gathered before but the article and their new splash page makes it seem like they want to supply this to large device makers (i.e. anyone not building things out of their basement) and I don't see how thi
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by bravo22 12y ago
Their product is open source: board design, firmware, and cloud software. The WiFi module is CC3000 from TI.
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by bravo22 12y ago
Their cloud software is also open sourced, and based on IEFT CoAp[1]. I see this being useful for a newbie maker, but for product shipping in any volume you'd integrate the CC3K directly ($11 vs $39) and you'd host the cloud serv
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by bravo22 12y ago
No. The spark dev kit includes an STM32F microcontroller. You can think of this as kinda like your Arduino. You can write programs for it, but you'd have to use their online IDE I think since Arduino native doesn't support STM32F.
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by bravo22 12y ago
They don't make a chip. They use a CC3000 from TI -- which costs about $10 -- and provide a thing wrapper around TI's own provided driver. You can take the same CC3000 from TI -- around $11 in low volume -- put it on your board an