cylon-wiced-sense

Cylon.js For WICED Sense

Cylon.js (http://cylonjs.com) is a JavaScript framework for robotics and physical computing using Node.js

This repository contains the Cylon driver for the Broadcom WICED Sense Bluetooth LE development kit http://www.broadcom.com/products/wiced/sense/.

For more information about Cylon, check out the repo at https://github.com/hybridgroup/cylon

How to Install

To connect to the WICED Sense with Cylon, you'll need to install the cylon-wiced-sense NPM module. You will also need to bundle in cylon-ble, which is needed to communicate with the device.

$ npm install cylon cylon-ble cylon-wiced-sense

How to Use

Here's a short example of getting data from the WICED Sense with Cylon:

var Cylon = require('cylon');
 
Cylon.robot({
  connections: {
    bluetooth: { adaptor: 'ble', uuid: '207377654321' }
  },
 
  devices: {
    wiced: { driver: 'wiced-sense' }
  },
 
  work: function(my) {
    my.wiced.getData(function(err, data) {
      if (!!err) {
        console.log("Error: ", err);
        return;
      }
 
      console.log("Data: ", data);
    });
  }
}).start();

How to Connect

The WICED Sense is a Bluetooth Low-Energy device, and is paired and connected as with any other BLE device. As long as you have the needed hardware in your computer for Bluetooth LE (Bluetooth 4.0), you can connect to the WICED Sense.

For more info, check out the BLE platform page.

Documentation

We're busy adding documentation to our web site at http://cylonjs.com/ please check there as we continue to work on Cylon.js

Thank you!

Contributing

For our contribution guidelines, please go to https://github.com/hybridgroup/cylon/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md.

Release History

For the release history, please go to https://github.com/hybridgroup/cylon-wiced-sense/blob/master/RELEASES.md.

License

Copyright (c) 2014 The Hybrid Group. Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.