{"id":1715,"date":"2014-12-14T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2014-12-14T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T17:22:31","slug":"logitec-lbt-vru01-bluetooth-le-iphone-locator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/logitec-lbt-vru01-bluetooth-le-iphone-locator\/","title":{"rendered":"Logitec LBT-VRU01 (bluetooth LE iPhone locator?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec11-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"logitec1\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec11-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec11-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked this up in Akihabara yesterday. It was 100JPY (about 1USD). It appears to be a bluetooth LE dongle that makes your iPhone vibrate when you press the button. The Japanese documentation is <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.logitec.co.jp\/downloadfile\/DLfile\/LST-M\/LBT-VRU01_mu_v01.pdf\">here<\/a>. I guess the idea is you use it to find your phone when you&#8217;ve lost it&#8230; wonder what you do when you lose it though&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>It looks like it might be reasonably hackable, you can see from the pics below it&#8217;s using SPI parts, and the SPI signals have been broken out on to pads which is nice.<\/p>\n<p>The main components seem to be:<\/p>\n<p>NY5P025AS24: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyquest.com.tw\/Download_chk.asp?id=161&#038;L=tw\n\">A cheap 4bit? CPU<\/a><br \/>\nCSR-1000A04U152AZ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digikey.com\/product-detail\/en\/CSR1000A04-IQQM-R\/CSR1000A04-IQQM-RCT-ND\/2769777\">The bluetooth LE part<\/a><br \/>\nATMLH216: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atmel.com\/Images\/doc0180.pdf\">A small EEPROM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"logitec3\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"logitec4\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"logitec2\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logitec2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up in Akihabara yesterday. It was 100JPY (about 1USD). It appears to be a bluetooth LE dongle that makes your iPhone vibrate when you press the button. The Japanese documentation is here. I guess the idea is you use it to find your phone when you&#8217;ve lost it&#8230; wonder what you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-rF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}