Wireless transmitters

Hey, can anyone recommend an easy to use bluetooth + generic 2.4 GHz development kit? I want something where it’s really easy to control the RF portion of the circuit such as channel selection, output power, modulation on/off etc. I’m not a firmware guy so I don’t want to mess around with writing and compiling code. Something that can be controlled from hyperterminal or a standalone app would be great. This is for an RF pre-compliance training course that I’m launching next month so I don’t need to control any of the baseband aspects of the circuit.

CSR have just what I’m looking for, but it’s only for Bluetooth. Nordic Semiconductor have a Bluetooth + ANT + generic 2.4 GHz development kit, but it looks relatively hard to set up.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Have a look at this blog http://embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.ca/p/ehal-nrf51.html. Show you how to work with free Eclipse based environment. Many example projects with iOS code to control. One example iPad to configure and control I/O. Other example use iPad to send text to LED matrix multidiplay. There are many pages. The module are available on Tindie.

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I have used the Nordic nRF8001 with an Arduino Pro Mini (clone) and have written up a detailed project based on it:

http://electronut.in/iot-triad-part-1/

The sdk from Nordic (github link is in my write-up) will let you control channel selection, output power, modulation on/off etc from the Arduino via SPI.