Toys & gaming

Wireless is a natural fit for toys and gaming.

Toys have found completely new levels of interaction possibilities for kids and grown-ups alike to play, have fun and also to learn. Bluetooth Low Energy has brought life to previously inanimate toys that now can learn to do new things, react in different ways and be tailored to a child’s wishes and needs. Connectivity can breathe life into games allowing individuals and groups to connect together or as groups and even via the cloud to play, compete and have fun from remote locations. Toys and games simply get more fun when they’re connected.

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Game controllers

Game controllers are almost exclusively wireless today, the spatial freedom offered just makes gaming so much better. Bluetooth low energy is a great candidate for game controllers, offering standardized connectivity it ensures compatibility across controllers, consoles, computers and TVs. The nRF52 Series SoCs offer excellent energy efficiency and with the broad range of peripherals and interfaces together with an ARM Cortex-M4 offer true single chip opportunities for gamecontroller design.

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Interactive toys

Interactive toys have brought life and character to kids toys. With powerful, richly featured connectivity SoCs such as the nRF52 Series at their heart they have the ability for motion, intelligence and speech interaction.
Wireless connectivity has changed toys for good. Once mostly inanimate objects, reliant on the child’s imagination alone. Now in addition to a child’s make-believe they can ask and respond to inquisitiveness bringing a much richer learning experience for kids.
With Bluetooth low energy interactive toys can learn and adapt to individuals by connecting to each other and the cloud via a smartphone.

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RC toys

Radio control (RC) toys are great fun for young and old alike. There are RC trains, planes and automobiles, and of course helicopters available with a variety of performance and price points.
2.4GHz wireless can offer bi-directional digital control at acceptable distances with attractive power consumption levels.
Similar to robots RC toys have a lot of complexity under the hood. In addition to connectivity a broad selection of digital and analog interfaces is desirable for hooking up various sensors and motor control to the application processor.

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Robots

Robots, who doesn’t love robots? In a similar way to interative toys and creatures, robots now not only perform actions, they engage with you, even talk to you and act on your commands. A broad variety of robots exist from the classic humanoid we are all familiar with to dinosaurs that hunt for other connected devices to purely robotic arms offering very high precision movement.

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Drones & pods

Drones and pods have become wildly popular in recent years, this has been due to levels of IC integration and functionality now available at competitive cost-points.
Drones come in all shapes and sizes with specifications ranging from pro, semi-pro to just for fun drone use. Bluetooth connectivity offers unique ability to connect to smartphones, whilst 2.4GHzproprietary offers efficient, low-latency and high data rates for control of simpler drones and helicopters
Many non-pro spec drones use the nRF52/51 Series SoC for control, interfacing and communication on a single chip.

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