Centauri's Thoughts

Spent part of the afternoon reading and learning about the bluetooth protocol. I had been hearing about it (mostly in connections with cell phones), but I wanted to learn more.


One thing I found out, is Bluetooth is a kind of RF Ethernet protocol, and is designed for many devices to auto discover each other and set up "piconets" within a related device group, even as there may be other "piconets" within the same space. the concepts are interesting, but I'd like to see what would happen when every modern appliance I own all had bluetooth technology.


I would like to play with it on my unix machine, but that means I need at LEAST 2 bluetooth devices, the interface for my PC, and some other device (I dont own a cell phone). It sounds like I can use it to make services available from my unix machine (like a type of web browsing, or other informational things).


I might also use something like that for robot communications in the house. We'll see how this develops over time.


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