I finally loaded the software onto the Adafruit Bluefruit LE board after 2 weeks of having it breadboarded but being, essentially, afraid to do so.<\/p>\n
It loaded with no errors, all libraries included. The Bluetooth part worked perfectly! My android phone picked it up, recognized it as a hardware keyboard, and had a few questions for me such as “what language was the keyboard” and “do you want to display the virtual keyboard?”<\/p>\n
I was not, however, able to send any keystrokes to the phone, and tried many iterations of this. A flash of intuition told me that I had my switches installed 90\u00c2\u00b0 away from what they should be, and a trip to Adafruit to find the schematic confirmed it. Still, no joy.<\/p>\n
After getting my new, cheapo multimeter found & going (you need a Phillips head screwdriver to the battery in) I used continuity mode to determine that the damn switches don’t work! That actually made me pretty happy because it was either that or issues that were much worse.<\/p>\n
I’m sure I have enough switches in the basement to make a quick wired key layout for breadboard testing so I don’t have to get into using the real cherry key switches reserved for the final build.<\/p>\n
This feels right and I should be into final prototyping soon!\u00c2\u00a0 I will take a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I finally loaded the software onto the Adafruit Bluefruit LE board after 2 weeks of having it breadboarded but being, essentially, afraid to do so. It loaded with no errors, all libraries included. The Bluetooth part worked perfectly! My android … Continue reading