How to make Bluetooth devices?

[Carlos1010]

Hi all,

Just curious where I could learn how to make circuit boards and stuff so I could connect them with my PC. One of my idea's is to make a Bluetooth device that connects to my PC via WiFi? Where can I lean to make them? Thanks in advanced! 

[SnowCore]

https://www.adafruit.com is a great resource for electronics tutorials electronics products. They also manufacturer micro controllers, and bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules too. What exactly are you looking to make? 

[Carlos1010]

Just now, SnowCore said:

https://www.adafruit.com is a great resource for electronics tutorials electronics products. They also manufacturer micro controllers, and bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules too. What exactly are you looking to make? 

Im just really like making things with my hands as well as computer science. I want to make like a Bluetooth device so that when my dad is at his house I could connect to him via his wifi . I just want to do this for experience. 

[dantayy]

What are you trying to create? Give us more details and we can help you

[Carlos1010]

3 minutes ago, SnowCore said:

https://www.adafruit.com is a great resource for electronics tutorials electronics products. They also manufacturer micro controllers, and bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules too. What exactly are you looking to make? 

I've never had experience with circuit boards and stuff so I really want to learn from the bare start. The only experience I have are building a computer and coding in Pascal and HTML. I'm learning C++ now. 

[SnowCore]

3 minutes ago, Carlos1010 said:

Im just really like making things with my hands as well as computer science. I want to make like a Bluetooth device so that when my dad is at his house I could connect to him via his wifi . I just want to do this for experience. 

lol, I don't understand. connect what to what? 

[Carlos1010]

Just now, SnowCore said:

lol, I don't understand. connect what to what? 

Connect my PC to the circuit board. 

[feehi]

The arduino or raspbery pi is a great place to start.

[SLAYR]

20 minutes ago, Carlos1010 said:

Im just really like making things with my hands as well as computer science. I want to make like a Bluetooth device so that when my dad is at his house I could connect to him via his wifi . I just want to do this for experience. 

Why not just use wifi then instead of bluetooth, it would most likely be easier to program, the connect part is confusing, what do you want to accomplish by the device examples are show a message, light up an led, something like that.

[Theguywhobea]

Connecting to bluetooth devices is super simple. I think I used the same adafruit board for my senior project in college and you can basically just give the board power, then loop the receive back to the transmit and it should discover into a PC just fine. Configure it in your PC as a serial connection (as that's all Bluetooth is anyway) and you should be able to to send a message over the Bluetooth from your own computer back to your computer (essentially making a sort of wireless null-modem cable)

[Carlos1010]

Just now, SLAYR said:

Why not just use wifi then instead of bluetooth, it would most likely be easier to program, the connect part is confusing, what do you want to accomplish by the device examples are show a message, light up an led, something like that.

Yeah sure, lightning up a LED do I need a raspberry pi for that or? I just want to work with these circuit boards and for example give them power and then hook them up to a monitor right? And then I want to give it commands like turn on! I want to do that from another PC. 

[SLAYR]

7 minutes ago, Carlos1010 said:

Yeah sure, lightning up a LED do I need a raspberry pi for that or? I just want to work with these circuit boards and for example give them power and then hook them up to a monitor right? And then I want to give it commands like turn on! I want to do that from another PC. 

If you get something like a RPi, and you can remotely access it to control it, or really tell it to do something when something else occurs such as some sort of sensor activating, the possibilities are limitless. You really don't even need a monitor for an RPi besides for the initial setup, and if you setup SSH to get remote access to it.

[Carlos1010]

1 minute ago, SLAYR said:

If you get something like a RPi, and you can remotely access it to control it, or really tell it to do something when something else occurs such as some sort of sensor activating, the possibilities are limitless. You really don't even need a monitor for an RPi besides for the initial setup, and if you setup SSH to get remote access to it.

What programming language do you need to know to program the RPi?