On: There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a C...

[mrunkel]

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…

[johannes1234321 → mrunkel]

> 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 ...

[SV_BubbleTime → johannes1234321]

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.

[johannes1234321 → SV_BubbleTime]

If you do mass testing the Bluetooth might be useful in theory, but you babe to make sure to protect the data well ...

[pixl97 → johannes1234321]

The environmental cost of getting more people sick with covid is also high.

[voakbasda → pixl97]

People decompose. Electronics don’t.

[johannes1234321 → pixl97]

Yes, but one can test without full set of electronics in each test thingy ...