Hello Brian, the pins you need for the serial cable replacement are easily accesible on the downside of the module and can be soldered to directly. I just attached half of a 2.5 mm raster DIP socket to the module (with epoxy glue) - because I found the Hirose connector difficult to get and difficult to solder to. You probably don't need a RS170 like / nor development kit for doing experiments. The nice thing about the module (compared e.g. with the ones from Taiyo Yuden) is, that it only needs one 3.3V power + a MAX232 like (but 3.3V) chip for the serial interface. For me it even works with a MAX232 that is powered with 3.3V only. With the DIP socket like connector various modules are easily excahangeable. => I'll put a few photos on the web. Putting the module on a flatbed scanner, doing a high-resolution scan and printing out an enlarged picture did a very good job in identifying the tiny connections on the PCB. regards Ralf On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Bryan Hurley wrote: > > Very nice board. small and does serial and audio cable replacement. > > Download the 0320_manual.pdf from tekgear. Extremely helpful. Tells how to > use for data cable replacement or audio cable replacement, which isn't > very hard to do it looks like. > > Now all we need is a kit like the RS170 for this thing.. > > Small board the same size as the BISM. > Should have the Hirose connnector and 30-40 solder points for accessing > the pins. probably have to be double sided board to fit all the > connections. > > Search Digikey.com for > hirose df12 header 40 > and you get the four options you are allowed to use with the connector on > the TDK board. > > Of course you can just purchase a dev kit for it... Digikey has to special > order it and it runs about $200 USD. I think it comes with this > motherboard, but no definitive answer... > http://www.tdksystems.com/images/serialmod.jpg > TDK Bluetooth Developer's Kit > This product contains all of the materials needed to incorporate the TDK > BISM into an > existing or new design. The kit contains the following: > .. 1 BISM module > .. 1 Motherboard > .. 1 Power supply for motherboard > .. 1 Serial cable > .. 1 Go Blue USB adaptor > .. 2 CDs with necessary software > Which is why I think it uses that board.. it looks like it does everything > you need.. just rather large. It looks like you could just remove the > audio board and use it as a wireless serial cable, but the size could > still be reduced.. > > Hope this is usefull to someone > -Bryan Hurley > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Tony Havelka wrote: > > TDK BISM $70 > > > > Check out http://www.tekgear.com/category.cfm?category=Bluetooth%20OEM for > > more OEM modules that might do the trick as well. > > > > -Tony > > -- > Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org > Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain > --------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ralf Ackermann _
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