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Smartphone and mbed

Topic last updated 11 Dec 2018, by Cale McCollough. 8 replies
Walt White
21 Dec 2013

Is there a way to use an old smartphone with mbed?

Wim Huiskamp
21 Dec 2013

There are several options:

  1. most smartphones support bluetooth. You can add a bluetooth module to mbed (search mbed website for info) and connect to it using a virtual serial port and a bluetooth terminal application or even a dedicated (Android) app
  2. most older (smart)phones support a serial port using either TTL (5V or 3V3) or USB. This may be technical challenge in some cases
  3. depending on the smartphone OS you may be able to use the Android SDK interface (search mbed website for info)
  4. you may use mbed as a (wireless) webserver and use the smartphone browser to access mbed.
Walt White
22 Dec 2013

Thanks for the info. Now I have a few ideas I can research.

Cale McCollough
03 Nov 2016

I'm working on a solution called mbedBunk (https://github.com/Kabuki-Project/mbedBunk). Its mbed for Windows, Linux, OSX, Android and iOS! I need help with code!