[Microbit-Python] Bluetooth Access?

[Martin O'Hanlon]

Damien, Interestingly Im not sure what Im interested in! I was just looking
for project inspiration in the specs, saw Bluetooth and thought "if I could
use that - I could probably create something interesting".

I like the idea of a portable BLE beacon, announcing your presence to other
BLE devices with a Hi.

Martin

On 30 November 2015 at 14:38, Damien George <damien.p.george at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Martin, what BLE features are you interested in?
>
> As Nicholas said, MicroPython can't currently expose the underling BLE
> features.  It's something we are working on!
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > The answer are:
> >
> > * No you can't yet. This is because BLE imposes memory constraints that
> > make it hard to use Python (apparently the BLE stack takes up 12k of the
> > 16k RAM).
> >
> > * Damien has a genius plan for how we might get around this. I'll let
> > him describe it.
> >
> > * As far as I can tell, there's not a lot you can usefully do with BLE
> > *right now* - given some onerous flash memory constraints that we've
> > already exceeded you could re-flash the device.
> >
> > Sorry. :-(
> >
> > N.
> >
> > On 30/11/15 14:00, Martin O'Hanlon wrote:
> >> Can I access the Bluetooth functions on the MicroBit? If I can, how can
> >> I? If I cant, could I?
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