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Serial Bluetooth module slave test

May 8th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Uncategorized

I am going to test the connection of a serial Bluetooth module to my Mac laptop. Serial data will be provided to the module through a Teensy 2 used as a USB-to-Serial adapter. Soldering the module on a breakout board The difficulty is to correctly align all the module pins to the breakout pads. The [...]

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Bluetooth module breakout boards received

May 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Go to the Shop page if you want to get one.

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Serial Port Bluetooth module

April 16th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized

I recently ordered a couple of serial Bluetooth module on Ebay. You can find the same board with different names and different flash memories on the net but they all are based on the same design. The main chip is a CSR BC417143 a.k.a. BlueCore4-External connected to a 8Mbit parallel Flash memory containing the firmware. [...]

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My blog mentioned in Open Silicium magazine

January 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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Adding alsa audio support to a Buildroot-based system

January 28th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized

I have tested the building of a basic Linux system with Buildroot. I would like now to add audio support to this system with mp3 decoding capabilities. The mp3 decoding will be handled by the mpg123 application. The decoded audio playback will go through the alsa-lib userland interface that communicates with the alsa kernel subsystem. [...]

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