Has anyone had a chance to play with one of these? [url]http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2650stk[/url]
I played around with their previous incarnation of their multi-sensor low-power bluetooth tag ([url]http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2541dk-sensor[/url]) and it was pretty impressive for $25. My only frustration was my phone didnt support low power bluetooth at the time.
But with the new RPI3, and its BLE support, the combination with the TI sensor tag would provide a lot for just those two items…
“10 sensors including support for light, digital microphone, magnetic sensor, humidity, pressure, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, object temperature, and ambient temperature”
Someone should write a little .net driver to encapsulate the tag and all its sensors, to use from the RPI3
I don’t know exactly what applications the combo would be good for… but it seems like it would led itself to something, for such a cheap price. You could set the rpi3 within range of your wifi, put the tag anywhere within bluetooth range of your rpi3, and then access all the data from 10 sensors remotely, for what, $64 total? The rpi3 would be able to log forever.
They provide free apps for the Iphone that read all the tag sensors… and androidnow (they didnt have android support when I was playing with the earlier version)