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Time to hook up the Arduino to the computer and program it.

I realized I never said how I sent commands to the Bluetooth board. All I hooked up was the ground to the ground board which goes to the battery, and the RX/TX cables to the appropriate place on the bluetooth board.

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I hooked up the speaker and amplifier last night to test the bluetooth board, and it works. Pretty loud.

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Everything hooked up. Just got to solder together that Micro Controller (Arduino) and hook it up/play with it.

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Images shows the settings of CoolTerm and the default settings as says in the PDF specs for this bluetooth device. I also attached a screen grab of my iPad connected to it ready to send audio.

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So far I have lights on this bluetooth board and have it hooked up to the FTDI board, trying to get it working. I got https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31352/coolterm and it's just a simple plug in USB cable and set settings.

I pulled the GPIO9 port to the ground port of the battery power to get...