Arduino 101* includes on-board Bluetooth® LE to enable developers to interact with Bluetooth®-enabled devices such as phones and tablets.

The $22 kit includes an Arduino-BLE board and 6-pin header that should be fairly broadly applicable for building Arduino-based hardware that can communicate with iOS devices.

The participants will be exposed to microcontroller programming, electronic sensors, Arduino basics and architecture, cloud computing, basic IoT, Bluetooth modules and elements of Python programming.

Your robot army, controlled by Arduino and Bluetooth Open-source hardware project shrinks Arduino, adds wireless, creates awesome.

Thanks to the LightBlue Bean+, however, one of those roadblocks has been torn down. The Bean+ is basically an Arduino board that can be programmed via Bluetooth LE.

Of course, knowing the basics of Arduino is only half the battle; if you want to get to the fun stuff you'll have to learn how to code it as well.