ECE 110/120 Honors Lab Section : Bluetooth Controlled PCB

ECE 120

Chris Willenborg  cwillen2

Xiaowei Zhang xzhan145

Purpose: Our purpose is to help lazy people or elder people or busy people to easily manage their home or offices so that they could focus on their works. 

We are planning to develop a PCB circuit for general Bluetooth use. Currently, we are concentrating on implementing Bluetooth into our circuit and combining it all onto a PCB. The control system is programmable, based on inputs from the Bluetooth device that is sending the signal. The system features: a PCB that has a programmable chip that will control the circuit, a Bluetooth sensor used to receive inputs, an app, and signal transmitters and receivers used to communicate with them. This would be useful to control devices remotely with any device that has Bluetooth access.

We looked at the SparkFun website to figure out which sort of Bluetooth device would be compatible with modern Bluetooth devices. We looked at a few of the tutorials on SparkFun to figure out what properties would be most applicable to our project. We looked at the Android and Apple websites to see which devices are compatible.

We will need to design our PCB so that it can be fabricated, we will include a barrel jack, (2) TX RX LEDs, Simblee BLE (SparkFun # : RFD77101), a microprocessor, 

We may run into trouble creating an app and designing the PCB considering the fact that neither of us have designed a PCB or created an app before.

[1]S. RFD77101, S. Thing, S. ESP8266, S. Board, P. (Headers), I. Edison, I. Kit, L. RFD77101, R. Kit, R. DIP and P. Headers), "SparkFun Simblee BLE Breakout - RFD77101 - WRL-13632 - SparkFun Electronics", Sparkfun.com, 2016. [Online]. Available: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13632. [Accessed: 19- Sep- 2016].