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[TheDitis]

Hello, I bought a couple of the Artemis Redboard Nano boards, hoping to make some BLE midi controllers. What I didn't know when I bought them was that there was no support for BLE and that there is an incredibly high barrier to designing any custom BLE applications. I did some looking and I saw this thread: viewtopic.php?p=218070#p218070 where someone posted about 5 months ago that compatibility with the ArduinoBLE.h lib was in the works and coming soon, and I haven't been able to find anything posted since about this. It seems like the potential for these boards is really high, but I definitely don't have time to learn everything there is to know about how Bluetooth works to build it from scratch. It would be awesome to start using these things. Is this still in the works? Is there a good estimate of when that might be released if so? Thanks!

Ryan

[liquid.soulder]

Hi Ryan - you are in luck. Yes it is still in the works - it has been the primary focus of the SparkFun software team that entire time. Hoping to release by the end of the month. Stay tuned

[TheDitis]

YAAAY! That's amazing! Thanks for the quick response. I'm really excited to hear that. I'll keep my eye out for updates!

[TheDitis]

Hey, just checking back to see if I should still be keeping an eye out for this, and also checking to find out where I would even check to see once it has been released. I have been Googling periodically, but I feel like it might not show up in top results right away.

[liquid.soulder]

v2 of the arduino core is released. You must follow the updated installation instructions. They are available on the SparkFun website or more directly on the GitHub repo README
https://github.com/sparkfun/Arduino_Apollo3