RedBearLab Blend

Blend is an integrated developement board, RedBearLab has “blend”ed Arduino with Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (aka BLE or Bluetooth Smart) into a single board. It is targeted for makers to develop low power Internet-Of-Things (IoT) projects quickly and easily. Blend is 100% compatible with sketches and Shields that work with Arduino Leonardo. The micro-controller unit (MCU) is Atmel ATmega32U4 and the BLE chip is Nordic nRF8001. Blend runs as BLE peripheral role only, it allows BLE central role devices to establish connection with. Current supported BLE central devices: iOS 7 iPhone 4s iPhone 5 (all models) iPod touch 5 iPad 3/4/mini/Air Android 4.3 or above (4.4 recommended for stability) with Bluetooth 4.0 hardware support Nexus 4 Nexus 5 Nexus 7 other compatible Android devices reported by users (please report any other Android devices supported) Windows Phone 8.1 Nokia Lumia 630 (please report any other Windows Phone devices supported) Windows 8.1 with built-in Bluetooth 4.0 or USB dongle Mac OSX 10.9.2 with built-in Bluetooth 4.0 or USB dongle Linux with BlueZ 5.1 with built-in Bluetooth 4.0 or USB dongle