So I was creeping around on the internet, as usual, when suddenly I came across this:
This small little board is quite similar to the boards we’ve been using to make BLE work with Proffieboards for a while, but with some interesting differences:
- Supports BLE, BT, Wifi and Zigbee
- Costs $2
- Open Source Hardware
- Risc-V (open source processor)
- Looks easy to program to do whatever we want
I bought a handful to see what I can do with them.
I’m thinking that the following features might be interesting:
- BLE passwords
- serving the workbench directly over wifi
- some sort of remote audio (the ideal setup would be to take SPI or S-PDIF input, apt-x-encode it and send it to any APT-X capable speaker…)
- relay clash and motion information to a remote computer (and make that computer do something with it?)
- integration with various home automation frameworks for “lamp mode”
- SD card access (ftp? samba? tftp?)
Of course, the usefulness of these things all depends on how good the connection is… 