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Lukas Kaul
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Lukas Kaul

Lukas Kaul is a robotics Research Scientist, currently working at the Toyota Research Institute in Silicon Valley, where he develops mobile manipulation technologies to support people in their homes and in their workplace. Throughout his career he has worked on projects as diverse as humanoid robots, aerial robots and mobile manipulation systems. A maker at heart, Lukas has been using Arduino technology extensively for more than a decade in countless side-projects, ranging from mapping systems to self-balancing robots. Lukas is passionate about teaching robotics with Arduino to inspire and empower anyone who wants to enter the exciting field of robotics. He holds a PhD degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
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Controlling a robot from your phone via Bluetooth

Another incredibly useful wireless interface that we can use to interact with Arduino robots is Bluetooth. Just like Zigbee, Bluetooth is a powerful and very versatile wireless standard that can be used for many applications. We will use it in the most straightforward way, to connect to an Arduino over its Serial interface from a phone or tablet.

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This time, one side of the wireless communication will be your smartphone or tablet, so there is no extra hardware required on this end. We only need a Bluetooth adapter for your Arduino. For the next examples, we will use the Adafruit Bluefruit LE UART Friend as a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) adapter. This is a versatile and breadboard-friendly adapter with excellent software support. We only need to solder on the pin headers, place it on a solderless breadboard, and connect it to our Arduino, as shown in Figure 11.5:

Figure 11.5 – Connecting the Adafruit Bluefruit LE UART Friend to the Arduino Uno

Figure 11.5 – Connecting...

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Published in: Mar 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804613177

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Lukas Kaul

Lukas Kaul is a robotics Research Scientist, currently working at the Toyota Research Institute in Silicon Valley, where he develops mobile manipulation technologies to support people in their homes and in their workplace. Throughout his career he has worked on projects as diverse as humanoid robots, aerial robots and mobile manipulation systems. A maker at heart, Lukas has been using Arduino technology extensively for more than a decade in countless side-projects, ranging from mapping systems to self-balancing robots. Lukas is passionate about teaching robotics with Arduino to inspire and empower anyone who wants to enter the exciting field of robotics. He holds a PhD degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
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