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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by mrunkel on Monday December 27, 2021 @06:13AM (#29701465)
It’s for the Bluetooth piece. The optical sensor reads the result and the turns on the light and/or lets the phone know over Bluetooth.

Seems unnecessary, but if people want to buy it…

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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by johannes1234321 on Monday December 27, 2021 @07:29AM (#29701951)
> Seems unnecessary, but if people want to buy it…

Considering that this is an article used once for a few minutes the environmental cost for production and deposition is high and society shouldn't tolerate ...

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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by SV_BubbleTime on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:11AM (#29703644)
Once for this specific test. If you planned on buying a lot of tests and using them regularly, maybe you could find value in a BLE connection? IDK. That crosses into a different new normal line for me that I am uninterested in I think.

Otherwise, I agree, seems wasteful when you look at what had to happen to ship that product.

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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by johannes1234321 on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:51AM (#29704086)
If you do mass testing the Bluetooth might be useful in theory, but you babe to make sure to protect the data well ...
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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by pixl97 on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:07PM (#29704951)
The environmental cost of getting more people sick with covid is also high.
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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by voakbasda on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:18PM (#29705076)
People decompose. Electronics don’t.
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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by johannes1234321 on Monday December 27, 2021 @05:51PM (#29707887)
Yes, but one can test without full set of electronics in each test thingy ...
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