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bluetooth: arduino on a breadboard - wireless

bluetooth: arduino on a breadboard – wireless

so this was an important day…. the set up runs as follows: 1. the visual basic (Vb.Net) application sitting inside the skymap programme sends out a line of data over bluetooth 2. the atmega168 chip, which was programmed on an arduino diecimila board and is now sitting on a separate breadboard, powered by battery, with […]

bluetoothing an arduino – data to PC

this little sketch along with the vb .Net script below builds on the previous examples, but this time having completed the sketch the arduino sends a message: “[Arduino;Bluesmirf;Baltaz]”. This is then read by the windows .Net application using the SerialPort.DataReceived event in .Net. In short, it appears to my untrained eyes that the windows application […]

bluetooth: arduino controlled from windows

bluetooth: arduino controlled from windows

having got the bluesmirf working, now time to start sending and receiving some proper data between a computer and the arduino. this post is divided into: Part 1: sending data from […]

bluetooth: a wireless arduino (nearly)

bluetooth: a wireless arduino (nearly)

having got the stepper motor running the next thing to do is to send signals to the arduino chip (the ATMega 168) over bluetooth. for an arduino intro see this post). the bluetooth chip i picked up is a […]