Microchip is offering Dataweek readers an exclusive opportunity to win a PIC32 Bluetooth Starter Kit (DM320018) featuring the PIC32MX270F256D microcontroller (MCU).
This kit features an HCI-based Bluetooth radio; pushbuttons; Cree high-output, multi-colour LED; standard single-colour LEDs; accelerometer; temperature sensor; and GPIO for rapid development of Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP), USB and general-purpose applications. Also included onboard are 16 Mb SPI Flash, debugger and I²S, I²C and UART interfaces.
An Android app, demo code and Bluetooth SPP stack are provided for free to get developers started. The PIC32 MCU on the board is set up to perform full-duplex data transmission over the Bluetooth link to showcase colour mixing of the multi-colour Cree LED and displaying of temperature.
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