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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for low-power Microcontrollers. This site is both a support community for Espruino and a place to share what you are working on.
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You mean to make a new board with BLE on it?
I'm considering it - but the 16kB chip in the micro:bit has only 200 variables available, so is only really useful as a toy. I can use the 32kB chip which should give around 1000, which would be pretty good - but it's still pushing the limits.
Nordic are releasing the nRF52 - which is much more powerful, and I'm definitely interested in doing something with that (especially as it will be able to do IPv6 over BLE).
For the moment I'm actually considering just getting some pre-made iBeacons (possibly like this: http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Nordic-nrf51822-Chip-Button-iBeacon-Long_60407442183.html) programmed up with Espruino. It'd be relatively cheap and easy to do, and would be quite fun.