Getting started with BLE is easier than ever. T.K. Hareendran uses an inexpensive Texas Instruments CC2541 based module, Arduino, and Android to get connected.

The Arduino Nano 33 BLE Rev2 is a significant leap forward in the world of microcontroller boards, designed to empower a diverse array of projects with its advanced capabilities.

The boards, the Nano 33 BLE and Nano 33 BLE Sense are based on an ARM Cortex M4 CPU from Nordic. The obvious answer, of course, is to port the Arduino core over from scratch.

While the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense offers a small, powerful, BT connected development board with all the sensors you may need to design innovative applications.

The $22 kit includes an Arduino-BLE board and 6-pin header that should be fairly broadly applicable for building Arduino-based hardware that can communicate with iOS devices.

Arduino has bought out second revisions of its Nano 33 BLE and Nano 33 BLE Sense bluetooth-equipped microcontroller boards, keeping the sensor mix, but changing several of the sensor ICs.