Hi, I'm Pat Sagsveen.
Welcome to another Geek Moment video.
Today I would like to talk to you
about a Bluetooth module from Dialog.
This is a system on chip.
It's the DA14586
and that's on this little daughter card right here.
And also, the DA14585 Development Kit-Pro
and that's this big part right here.
This is a Bluetooth 5.
It supports from Bluetooth 5 down to Bluetooth 1.
It supports everything.
It's also part of a Bluetooth mesh.
It can support up to eight devices.
There's 24 GPIO pins on this.
There's I-squared-C, SPI, UART.
There are two crystals on this board,
one is for when it's in active mode
and one is for when it's in sleep mode.
They are 16 MHz for when it's in active mode
and 32.768 kHz used when it's in its sleep mode.
Helps to conserve power.
This board right here,
if you purchase the DA14585 board
it's gonna come with this development board right here.
And it won't come with this daughter card,
it will come with a DA14585 development card.
The difference being,
the DA14586 has an extra 2Mb of Flash memory.
You can connect it.
I'm currently using the USB from the computer to power this
but there's also a coin cell battery slot
and it's jumper selectable for which power source
you wanna use.
Dialog has quite a few tools
on their customer support website.
You need to go on and create an account.
Basically you're gonna give a name,
and an email and then you send it off
and they verify that and then comes back.
It takes about a day.
After that you can use their SmartSnippet Studio,
it's their IDE that they use for this.
They also have software development add-ons
and I'm using that for this project.
They had two projects.
They had a blinky light project
and they had a peripheral modules project.
For the purpose of this video
I'm just gonna show you guys the peripheral modules one.
Basically, I've got all the software on my computer here
and I've started this and I've executed the code
and this is where you can see on my cellular telephone
that I've got all this stuff
here showing you the image of picking up the module.
It says Yay Digi-Key on it,
and all that.
So that is what their project will take you to.
It'll just show you that you can use this.
You can get it up and running within a few short minutes.
I was able to get this up on my phone.
The longest part was actually downloading
the SmartSnippets tool.
This is a great unit for if you had a beacon
or IoT that's out there.
If you had any nodes in the home that you wanted
connected to anything.
Basically anything where Bluetooth is being used now,
this can do what Bluetooth 4 can do
but it can come in with less power.
It'll just consume less power basically
than what's on the market today.
Yep!
Great little product from Dialog.
I suggest you check it out.
That is the DA14585
and we've got links below to a Wiki writeup
that shows exactly the startup steps for this.
We'll have links below to that
and to the Development Kit-Pro
and also to the DA14586.
Thank you all for watching.
(guitar music)