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Deploying a Bluetooth gateway on your Raspberry Pi

The goal of this project is to convert your Raspberry Pi into a Bluetooth gateway so that it can scan and inform you about the surrounding Bluetooth devices (including their services and characteristics). The prerequisites of this project are:

A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (or Raspberry Pi 2 with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth dongles)
An Internet connection

Let's start by setting up the required packages on the Raspberry Pi. I will assume that you are a Linux novice and will explain every step in detail.

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