Creating a Bluetooth Toolbox

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Worked with BTLE environmental sensors and padlocks using Swift and a lot of hex and binary and documents concrete claims: helper methods that parse advertising packets, code that reads historical logs only when you connect and authenticate, and tricks to preserve battery by preferring advertising over full GATT connections. Shows how vendors ignore the GATT database, how UUIDs and background entitlements matter, how refrigerated containers flip signs in Celsius, and what byte-slicing masks actually look like in real payloads.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:11Specialty Crops
3. 3:47Designing Apps for Migrant Workers
4. 5:54Classic Bluetooth
5. 7:12Gap Database
6. 33:48String Constructor
7. 36:43Move Digits Back and Forth

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