Make: Bluetooth: Bluetooth LE Projects with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Smartphones

by Alasdair Allan, Don Coleman, Sandeep Mistry

This book is where your adventures with Bluetooth LE begin. You'll start your journey by getting familiar with your hardware Arduino, BLE modules, computers (including Raspberry Pi!), and mobile phones. From there, you'll write code and wire circuits to connect off-the-shelf sensors, and even go all the way to writing your own Bluetooth Services. Along the way you'll look at lightbulbs, locks, and Apple's iBeacon technology, as well as get an understanding of Bluetooth security--both how to beat other people's security, and how to make your hardware secure.

255 pages, Paperback

First published December 25, 2015

About the author

Alasdair Allan is a British scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. An expert on the Internet of Things and sensor systems, he’s famous for hacking hotel radios, deploying a 500-node mesh sensor network at Google I/O, and for revealing, back in 2011, that Apple’s iPhone was tracking user location constantly. He has written for Make: Magazine, VICE/Motherboard, Hackster.io, Hackaday, and to the O’Reilly Radar. A former academic, he also built a peer-to-peer autonomous telescope network that detected what was, at the time, the most distant object ever discovered.

Reviews

[Eric Mesa · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book was fine. The projects in here didn't draw me in as much as some of the other Make electronic books I've recently read. I think it's because most of them were a bit less useful in my house given the need to satisfy the wife aesthetically.

[Larry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good getting started. A little too focussed on using PhoneGap and phone capability versus IoT, but good information on BLE.