Picaxe 28X1 with Bluetooth Module?

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I have been doing a little search around the net and havent found a clear answer if the Picaxe28X1 would interface with any bluetooth module and has anyone have tried interfacing with success? Any thoughts on this topic would be appreciated.

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would the blutooth be used
would the blutooth be used to get real time feedback and maybe edit the code from a distance?

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I was playing around with

I was playing around with one of these http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=158 connected to a bs2 stamp and a bluetooth key.

I was able to communicate with my windows terminal and some very dirty code with with a perl script in linux but didn’t do much with it at the time. I’ll see about trying it on an 18x that I have when I have some time.

 

edit: I’ve also used these http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=155 which were a lot easier to use and set up.

 

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BlueSmIRF and Aircable

I have a BlueSmIRF from Sparkfun that was mentioned above, and have seen it used on another micros’ serial port, but not used it myself. And I’ve seen another bluetooth device, the Aircable stuff, used on a robot with a serial port.

Doesn’t seem to be any reason it wouldn’t work on a PICAxe, including programming and getting feedback.

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I have made the same

I have made the same discovery about other microcontroller but none could confirm a success interface with a PICAXE. I was trying to do the same thing as seen on this vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPt6kRCE5TE&eurl=http://www.pabr.org/sixlinux/sixlinux.en.html

 

Its the same theory that I wanted to do with my project robot but the guy didnt really explain what type of materials or microcontroller he was using.

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Not sure I’d want to do this

Not sure I’d want to do this with bt due to it’s limited short range of most devices, but I could see something like this being possible. Have you tried to email the guy to see if he could give you more info on how he did this?

The gumstix board that he’s using…or at least the gumstix board in general are pretty fast/ high end setups.

 

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A little more info
In the video description there is a page he linked where he explains that he’s using a Gumstix and Linux, to read the HID info over Bluetooth Sony controller. We’ve discussed a Wiimote a little and estimate it will take a PC like device to decode the HID messaging, so a PICAxe probably ain’t gonna make it. Doing basic serial communications over Bluetooth would be fine though.