Industry’s first haptic & Bluetooth development kit

Using BLE and a free iOS app, the kit enables designers to create haptic sequences and LED patterns for tactile feedback, notifications and alerts from a pre-licensed library of more than a hundred distinct haptic effects. This eliminates wires and removes the need to design haptic waveforms. The Haptic Bluetooth Kit can also be used to select and test haptic effects from the Immersion-licensed library for virtually any touch-enabled application, including wearables, portable medical equipment, HMI panels and augmented reality.

The kit is comprised of a DRV2605 haptic driver for ERM/LRA, a SimpleLink Bluetooth low energy CC2541 wireless MCU, an LRA and alkaline battery support. This battery support enables designers to mount the board to any surface for quick prototyping and integration, while the iOS app enables the control of on-board LEDs for attention-grabbing lighting effects.

Enabling designers to quickly add haptic technology to space-constrained, low-power wireless systems, such as touch remote controls, smart watches and portable insulin pumps, the Haptic Feedback with Bluetooth Low Energy and iOS App Reference Design (TIDA-00266) includes schematic design and layout files, test results, sample code, complete user documentation and a CAD file for a wrist-worn form factor.

The Haptic Bluetooth Kit (DRV2605EVM-CT) is available now for $99 and the iOS app is available for free on the Apple App Store.