Use BLE in Central Mode on arduino 101

bootchk:
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If only peripheral mode is supported, that is very limiting. That means you must use another system as a central to talk to your Curie peripheral devices, and you can't do thing like mesh networks with just the Curie.

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Linksprite BLE 4.0 shield (based on HM-10) can act as central and also as peripheral. See my post here.