MikalCarbine
New Member
Hey Forum 
I've been thinking about a my senior electrical engineering design project and I've come up with an FM transmitter that will connect to phones via blue tooth and transmit music/sound via FM to a car stereo.
Basically
Phone Audio -> Bluetooth -> FM -> Car Radio
I've done some research on FM-Transmitters and I've already obtained several Maxim oscillator IC's which will help me in the construction of the FM-transmitter part of the project. However, I've been having difficulties finding the correct blue tooth solution. I know solutions exist with bluetooth and FM Tx/Rx built into one chip but that'd take the fun out of the project. So far I've looked into these possible solutions:
CSR BlueCoreX (preferably 4 with built in ROM, 5 and up have built in FM)
Blu2i (Read about this on this forum, however appears to be OEL...)
BISM2 (Blu2i's successor I think)
ConnectBlue
The phone I'll be using as my test subject will be my Blackberry Bold. For stereo audio purposes it uses the A2DP profile to transmit from phone over bluetooth. I'm not sure if this is what I should be looking at in terms of BB Bluetooth communication types, I've also read information about AT and some other form. I'm not sure exactly where I should start looking in terms of what dev kit to use. Any advice is appreciated!
I've been thinking about a my senior electrical engineering design project and I've come up with an FM transmitter that will connect to phones via blue tooth and transmit music/sound via FM to a car stereo.
Basically
Phone Audio -> Bluetooth -> FM -> Car Radio
I've done some research on FM-Transmitters and I've already obtained several Maxim oscillator IC's which will help me in the construction of the FM-transmitter part of the project. However, I've been having difficulties finding the correct blue tooth solution. I know solutions exist with bluetooth and FM Tx/Rx built into one chip but that'd take the fun out of the project. So far I've looked into these possible solutions:
CSR BlueCoreX (preferably 4 with built in ROM, 5 and up have built in FM)
Blu2i (Read about this on this forum, however appears to be OEL...)
BISM2 (Blu2i's successor I think)
ConnectBlue
The phone I'll be using as my test subject will be my Blackberry Bold. For stereo audio purposes it uses the A2DP profile to transmit from phone over bluetooth. I'm not sure if this is what I should be looking at in terms of BB Bluetooth communication types, I've also read information about AT and some other form. I'm not sure exactly where I should start looking in terms of what dev kit to use. Any advice is appreciated!
