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Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems

You're reading from   Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems Take your first steps in IoT

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461087
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Muhammad Usama bin Aftab Muhammad Usama bin Aftab
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. BLE and the Internet of Things FREE CHAPTER 2. BLE Hardware, Software, and Debugging Tools 3. Building a BLE Central and Peripheral Communication System 4. Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons 5. BLE Indoor Navigation Using Estimote Beacons 6. Bluetooth Mesh Technology 7. Implementing a Bluetooth Gateway Using the Raspberry Pi 3 8. The Future of Bluetooth Low Energy

Set up your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian


In order to start setting up your Raspberry Pi, you need to first install the Raspbian OS. Raspbian is a Debian-based Linux operating system for the Raspberry Pi. It was created in June 2012 by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as an independent project, but now the Raspberry Pi Foundation recommends it. This book will teach you how to install Raspbian using New Out Of the Box Software (NOOBS). NOOBS is an operating system installer that contains Raspbian. In addition to this, it also provides an alternative OS in case you don't want to use Raspbian.

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You can download NOOBS from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/.

After downloading NOOBS, extract it. Select all the files in the extracted directory and copy them to an SD card. The Raspberry Pi 3 comes with a built-in microSD card slot. You can connect your microSD card into an SD card jacket and copy the files after connecting it to your computer. Once they are copied, insert the card in the Raspberry...

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