Bleilot

Bleilot is a fictional open-source software and hardware platform designed for rapid prototyping of BLE-enabled devices and autonomous systems. It provides a modular hardware board family, a cross-platform runtime, and a development ecosystem intended to simplify building IoT projects and educational robotics. The platform emphasizes portability across microcontrollers, safety features for validated deployments, and a unified interface for hardware and software developers.

Bleilot was released in 2016 by the Bleilot Collective, a community of engineers and educators. It grew through community-driven contributions and documentation. The project published its reference design and software under a permissive license, and expanded with plug-in modules, a mobile app, and cloud logging in subsequent years.

The Bleilot Core Runtime abstracts hardware resources for BLE devices, sensors, and actuators. The Device API provides a consistent programming model across boards. The BLE Transport Layer handles low-power wireless communication. Bleilot Script provides a lightweight scripting language with bindings for Python and C++. Bleilot Studio is the integrated development environment for device programming, simulation, and testing. The ecosystem also includes a companion mobile app for device provisioning and a cloud service for data collection and OTA updates.

Bleilot found use in education, hobbyist robotics, and small-scale IoT deployments. Advocates highlight its simplicity, safety abstractions, and open architecture; critics point to a modest enterprise ecosystem and limited hardware maturity compared to dominant platforms. The project continues with periodic releases and community governance.