Blend Micro - an Arduino Development Board with BLE

Blend Micro - an Arduino Development Board with BLE

Name: Blend Micro - an Arduino Development Board with BLE
Brand: Seeed Studio
SKU: SS-113990059
Price: 45.57 AUD
Availability: InStock

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Blend Micro is our first integrated developement board, we have "blend"ed Arduino with Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (aka BLE or Bluetooth Smart) into a single board. It is targeted for makers to develop low power Internet-Of-Things (IoT) projects quickly and easily.

The micro-controller unit (MCU) is Atmel ATmega32u4 and the BLE chip is Nordic nRF8001. Blend Micro runs as BLE peripheral role only, it allows BLE central role devices to establish connection with.

Current supported BLE central devices:

iOS 7

iPhone 4s
iPhone 5 (all models)
iPod touch 5
iPad 3/4/mini/Air

Android 4.3 or above (4.4 recommended for stability) with Bluetooth 4.0 hardware support

Nexus 4
Nexus 7
(please report any other Android devices supported)

Windows 8.1 with built-in Bluetooth 4.0 or USB dongle

Mac OSX 10.9.2 with built-in Bluetooth 4.0 or USB dongle

Linux with BlueZ 5.1 with built-in Bluetooth 4.0 or USB dongle

Features

First BLE + Arduino board under Arduino AtHeart program
Works with Nordic Bluetooth Smart SDK for Arduino
Software development using Arduino IDE
Over-the-Air download of sketch to Blend Micro (available soon)
Supported by our free Android App and iOS App

Technical Specification

Microcontroller	Atmel ATmega32u4
Wireless Chip	Nordic nRF8001
Operating Voltage	3.3V
Input Voltage	5V (USB) 3.3-12V (VIN) Note: Use either one power source at a time.
Clock Speed	8MHz
Connectivity	Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy micro-USB Serial (TX/RX) I2C SPI
Flash Memory	32KB (of which 4 KB used by bootloader)
SRAM	2.5KB
EEPROM	1KB
Dimensions	43.6 x 18.4 x 4.3mm (83 x 58 x 25mm with packaging)
Weight	4g (19g with packaging)
Power Consumption	2mA (average - using Interrupt mode)
I/O Pins	24