Coin BLE is an Arduino based hardware for iOS devices. The device is called coin because of its small dimensions. It measures only 0.7 x 2 inches in size and extremely low energy. The technical specifications of this hardware are:
- MCU: Atmel ATMEGA328AU with Arduino Pro Mini Bootloader
- Clock: 8MHz
- 32K flash and 2K RAM
- 3 to 18V power supply range, regulated to 3V
- Texas Instruments CC2540 F128 32MHz BLE chip with 128K flash and 8K RAM
- Johanson 2450AT18A100E Antenna
A comparison of Coin Arduino BLE kit bare board as compare to Assembled board can be found here:
From left to right: Bare Board, Assembled Board without Pins and Assembled Board with Pins
More information about the use-cases of Coin Arduino can be found at this official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmugZcobahA&feature=player_embedded.