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I was so excited when found out that this HM-10 Bluetooth can be configured as iBeacon device. Bluetooth Low Energy beacon which the protocol was developed by Apple. But we will call this device or module as beacon .

In my earlier post I mentioned about how to configure HM-10. My HM-10 by default has name BT05. I want to change it. But how ? That's not hard as long you have necessary tools to do it. In my case I setup it using breadboard and use Arduino 5v as power supply. To configure HM-10 you need to issue AT command. For that purpose you need to use serial communication between computer and the module. Here are  tools that I use: HM-10 BLE USB to Serial/TTL adapter or cable I use FT232RL USB to TTL adapter Arduino and Arduino IDE Male to male jumpers USB to mini usb cable data (for serial connection) Here is HM-10 and FT232RL side by side. For pinout for HM-10 and FT232RL based on above picture are below. HM-10 (From left to right) STATE RXD TXD GND VCC EN FT232RL (From left to right) DTR RX TX VCC CTS GND The pin we will use for serial communication are below. HM-10 TXD  FT232RL RX HM-10 RXD  FT232RL TX Since we use Arduin...

My last setup as seen on previous post has been abandoned for a while. A bit busy with another work and holiday. About holiday I'll tell you in my upcoming post. Interesting place to visit and beautiful too. You probably will be interested too.

We will learn more interesting stuff with Arduino and bluetooth. Basic stuff is connecting Arduino to HM-10 Bluetooth 4.0 LE module which also known as Bluetooth Smart and doing some serial communication. This module has has some interesting feature. Beside of it's reduced energy consumption, another feature that quite interesting is that we can use it as iBeacon .

I have great passion about electronics since I was in middle school then high school. With some of my school friend that has same passion in electronics, we built radio transmitter so we can communicate each other at anytime. It was so cool back then. Thats why I took study on electrical Engineering. Instead of working on Electrical engineering field, I end up become web programmer. Something I found interesting when i was in college. That's old story. But lately I get bored and try to get another hobby. I have many hobbies and creating electronics stuff is one of it. So I bought my self Arduino Uno and few electronic components to get started learning Arduino programming. So my first project is controlling RGB Led. Here what you need: Arduino Uno with usb data cable and Arduino IDE Install Adafruit Neopixel library 3 PL9823 RGB led Breadboard Jumper cables (mostly male to male) First you need to install Arduino IDE. You can download it here .  That would d...