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Arduino Wearable Projects

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Arduino Wearable Projects

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)

The Blend Micro app


Red Bear has developed an application for both Android and IOS, which are great companions for developing and debugging the Blend boards. Start by downloading the application to you mobile phone. If you are running Android, you will find the application at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redbear.redbearbleclient.

And for IOS:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/ble-controller/id855062200.

You can also search for BLE Controller in the Android Play store or in iTunes.

In order to give some feedback on the Blend Micro let's set it up on a breadboard with an external LED, which we will control from the mobile application. When you buy a Blend Micro board, it comes with the male pin headers unsoldered. I suggest you keep them unsoldered since we want to keep the circuit for the project as flat as possible later on. For this next part, you can just place the male pin headers on a breadboard so that they line up with the pins of the Blend Micro, and then place the Blend...