RFduino: An Arduino shrunk to the size of a finger-tip and made wireless!

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Communicating with us

The best way to communiate with us is on the RFduino Forum.

Installation

• Get the RFduino hardware.

• Install the FTDI drivers.

• Download Arduino 1.6.6 or newer.

  • Mac OS X: Requires Java 6 to be installed. Available here.
  • Note: The default Package in Ubuntu 16.04 is to old 1.5.3 and does not support adding hardware support.

• Open Arduino

  • Edit Preferences, and add http://rfduino.com/package_rfduino166_index.json to Additional Board Manager URLs and save.
  • Open the Boards Manager under Tools->Board menu.
  • Select the RFduino package at the end of the list, and click Install to install it.
  • Your new board will now show up in the Tools->Board menu.

Select the board and port, and you're ready to go!

Note: Arduino may not start properly if another version has been previously installed and the Preferences are incompatible. You can reset the Preferences by deleting the following directory:

• Windows: %appdata%/Arduino15 (open File Explorer, enter %appdata% into the Address Bar and press Enter)
• Mac OS X: ~/Library/Arduino15 (open Finder, and Go->Go to Folder)
• Linux: ~/.arduino15

Linux

// FTDI drivers are not needed (they are built into the kernel)

wget http://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.6.6-linux64.tar.xz
tar -xf arduino-1.6.6-linux64.tar.xz

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install default-jre
Fedora: sudo yum install jre
OpenSUSE: sudo zypper install jre

// otherwise the com port open will fail with permission denied (you must logout/login for change to take effect)
sudo usermod -aG dialout <username>

Getting Started

• Attach the USB shield

• Select RFduino from the Tools->Board menu

• Select the port from the Tools->Port menu

• Select an example from the File->Examples->RFduinoNonBLE or File->Examples-?RFduinoBLE directory

• Select Upload to compile, upload and execute the sketch

• Download the iPhone example apps from the iPhone App Store (search for RFduino).

  • Detailed instructions for the Temperature app are available here.
  • Detailed instructions for the ColorWheel app are available here.

RFduinoApps

Check out the RFduinoApps repository for iPhone App source code & RFduino to Raspberry Pi integration projects.