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Je-Rock

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!
 
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martin griffith

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!
Yep there is a guy here called Boki, really helpful dude, and we've
help him a lot, sort of


martin
 
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Jens Tingleff

Jan 1, 1970
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Yep there is a guy here called Boki, really helpful dude, and we've
help him a lot, sort of

*snort*!

Very funny :)

A less flippant replay is to suggest a module (using a bare chip is *not* for
the fainthearted). Google for somewhere to buy a module with programming
support.

Typically, you get a module with power, digital and perhaps analogue I/O,
antenna and supply connections. You then somehow put custom software on this
module (or add a microcontroller on the board and speak to the bluetooth module
using some serial protocol). Simple as that! Builing your own module is tricky.
Very.

Best Regards

Jens
 
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vasile

Jan 1, 1970
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Je-Rock said:
Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!


A bluethooth transciever is a RF chip running in 2.4Ghz ISM band.
Except the transciever itself you need also a PA and probably a
microstrip antenna.
It's a big project and require the availability of RF tools as spectrum
analyzer, eventually a network analizer for antenna caracterisation and
a lot of time, base knowledge and software (of couse it needs some
logic too...)
There are many producers of bluethooth transcievers, most of them are
keeping designs on secret and require a NDA signed by an user company.
If you are just an amateur will be difficult.
So, if you don't match all criteria above, better play with zigbee,
it's easier.

greetings,
Vasile
 
Je-Rock said:
Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!

Sparkfun has the answers you seek, they have everything bluetooth
related

modules
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php?cPath=16_115

antenna suff
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php?cPath=16_78

bluetooth_primer
http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/BlueTooth/bluetooth_primer.htm

forum to ask questions
http://www.sparkfun.com/cgi-bin/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=391f1f40455efc81b0726529e039705b
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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dated said:
network analizer

Please note that it's 'analyser'. The spelling you use indicates that
the network is fundamentally inserted.
 
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Nico Coesel

Jan 1, 1970
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Je-Rock said:
Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!

TDK sells a ready-to-go kit which implements a bluetooth serial
interface.
 
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Nico Coesel

Jan 1, 1970
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John Woodgate said:
Please note that it's 'analyser'. The spelling you use indicates that
the network is fundamentally inserted.

Is there some rule about the 's' and 'z'?
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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dated Wed said:
Is there some rule about the 's' and 'z'?
I didn't notice that. Yes, 'analyser' is usually used in British
English, and 'analyzer' in US English. There are no rules; it's all down
to usage.

But in general, 'z' is correct, except for a few words, such as
'comprise', 'surprise' and 'advertise'. Apart from those, the 's'
spelling was invented in Britain by some newspaper editors in the 1920s
and isn't etymologically correct.

I normally use 'z', because it's used in IEC standards.
 
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Homer J Simpson

Jan 1, 1970
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Is there some rule about the 's' and 'z'?

It's not the s or z. It's the difference between anal and analyse.
 
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Meindert Sprang

Jan 1, 1970
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Nico Coesel said:
TDK sells a ready-to-go kit which implements a bluetooth serial
interface.

That would be Ezurio now. www.ezurio.com
Very nice modules, we use them quite a lot.

Meindert
 
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vasile

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
I didn't notice that. Yes, 'analyser' is usually used in British
English, and 'analyzer' in US English. There are no rules; it's all down
to usage.

But in general, 'z' is correct, except for a few words, such as
'comprise', 'surprise' and 'advertise'. Apart from those, the 's'
spelling was invented in Britain by some newspaper editors in the 1920s
and isn't etymologically correct.

I normally use 'z', because it's used in IEC standards.

I used "analizer" because that is called in romanian language,
english is just a language I've learned at school, 25 years ago.
Of course it looks in english "analyser" is the most frequently used.

greetings,
Vasile
 
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Homer J Simpson

Jan 1, 1970
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I used "analizer" because that is called in romanian language,
english is just a language I've learned at school, 25 years ago.
Of course it looks in english "analyser" is the most frequently used.

A lot of FSU dictionaries have errors. Often the first English word is one
which is never used. Search for the meaning of 'Anal'.
 
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John @ Trebutech

Jan 1, 1970
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Je-Rock said:
Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!

Phillips BGB203/1 SIP Bluetooth Chip, with a surface mount 2.4Ghz Antenna?

[Both available from Digikey]

Almost all you need, take a look at the shortform datasheet. [Google]
 
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John @ Trebutech

Jan 1, 1970
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John @ Trebutech said:
Je-Rock said:
Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!

Phillips BGB203/1 SIP Bluetooth Chip, with a surface mount 2.4Ghz Antenna?

[Both available from Digikey]

Almost all you need, take a look at the shortform datasheet. [Google]

Oh warning, tiny 7x8mm HVQFN chip :)
 
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Spehro Pefhany

Jan 1, 1970
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Je-Rock said:
Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!

Phillips BGB203/1 SIP Bluetooth Chip, with a surface mount 2.4Ghz Antenna?

[Both available from Digikey]

Almost all you need, take a look at the shortform datasheet. [Google]

Gack! It's got a 32-bit ARM processor with 268k of flash and 40k of
RAM in that little package. The new 8051?


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
 
John said:
Je-Rock said:
Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!

Phillips BGB203/1 SIP Bluetooth Chip, with a surface mount 2.4Ghz Antenna?

[Both available from Digikey]

Almost all you need, take a look at the shortform datasheet. [Google]

do you know where the full datasheet is? can't find it anywhere, thanks
 
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John @ Trebutech

Jan 1, 1970
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Je-Rock said:
Hi,
I am going to build a board to hook up with my PDA(bluetooth enabled).
Some one have experience with this? I need to find some bluetooth chips
and antenna.
Any advice will be appreciated!

Phillips BGB203/1 SIP Bluetooth Chip, with a surface mount 2.4Ghz
Antenna?

[Both available from Digikey]

Almost all you need, take a look at the shortform datasheet. [Google]

do you know where the full datasheet is? can't find it anywhere, thanks
The shortform really should be all you need.

I'm pretty sure the units available from Digikey only have the SPP (Or
whatever their own brand of the acronym is...) profile on it.

I should probably connect up the JTAG and see what else I could do with
it....when I have time :(
 
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