Hi,
I’m a student working in a projet in which wireless communitacion is required. As it is meant to communicate a PC with a PIC, I bought the bluetooth dip module with RP-SMA from sparkfun.
That is the product:
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/produc … ts_id=8469
In order to test the module I just plugued the Vcc and GND pins to it on a breadboard and tried to locate it from my computer, but nothing happens. All the other pins are floating!
As it’s written on the website, it comes preconfigured by the name of “Sparkfun BT”, so I guess I would be able to locate it from my PC, isn’t it?
Also, I didn’t know when I bought but the RP-SMA is built for an antenna, but can I just ignore this part? I believe that an antenna would be useful only to increase range, so I guess I can test without one and have worse range, am I right?
I also noticed the VCC falls from 3.3V to 3.0V when I power on the circuit (its a bad source made up with diodes). Is this drop too critical? What’s the voltage tolerance of such dispositives?
Thank you in advance
John Joei