Microbit's radio module

[Jim.S]

I am intrigued by the Microbit's radio module. I can understand how one microbit can communicate with another microbit, but is it possible to communicate with other computer hardware. Can standard bluetooth hardware be reconfigured in software to communicate with a microbit?

[deshipu]

I don't know about bluetooth modules, but I've heard that you can communicate with the micro:bit using an nrf24l01 module. But don't ask me about the detail of the protocol -- that can be probably gleaned from the radio module's source code, though.

[mikethebee]

Hello Deshipu
I am working with the MicroBit (M:B) and a Hat I call the rThingBit1, produced by member Richard I. at our local hackspace. (htp://rlab.org.uk) It has a MicroChip RN2483 LoRaWAN chip on board. Using uPython allows us to send data to The Things Network (http://thethingsnetwork.org) and poweroff the M:B to save power. We haven't got enough memory to run the BT stack and uPython code, but should be able to use the Radio in peer to peer mode. I will be doing this for a project shortly.

I have used BT with the Android app and been able to control the M:B as intended : http://bluetooth-mdw.blogspot.ie/

It is also discussed here:
https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython/issues/71

Hope that helps,
-Mike (newbie)