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by darthcloud 1485 days ago
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I wrote a retrospective that might be interesting to read to some: https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro/discussions/289

In this article, I detail how my initial goal of leaning more about Bluetooth and sell a product turned into a software platform makers now use to sell their own hardware take base on my original design.

You can easily give the project a try without building a full adapter. If you got a dev board with the original ESP32 you can flash [1] the BlueRetro_pad_test.bin firmware, connect a Bluetooth device [2] to it and see the buttons inputs from a terminal [3]. You can also connect to the web Bluetooth interface [4] to take a look at the configuration.

To simply see the adapter in action you can look at my original Hackday Prize submission video [5].

[1] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro/wiki/Flashing-firmwa...

[2] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro/wiki/Controller-pair...

[3] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro/wiki/Getting-BlueRet...

[4] https://blueretro.io/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_Zbjb2_ms