https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/118945/nrf52840-dongle-not-supported-in-quickstartHi I am a student exploring on the usage of nRF52840 utilsing Thread communication protocol but i cant seems to get it setup for the configuration. The documentation is quite tedious and hard to follow as there is many prerequisite to do before handsen-USTelligent Community 13Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:22:31 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/522962?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:22:31 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:7e615fe4-ed12-45f3-b19b-9d35f119db75Einar Thorsrud<p>Hi,</p> <p>The quick start guied does not have support for all of the boards. And importantly, the dogle is not a developmet kit, and does not have an onboard debugger, so it is not well suited as a development platform (unless you have an additional development kit where you do development and debugging or an external debugger). If you are getting into nRF52840 development, I suggest you obtain a development kit instead.</p> <p>That said, you can develop for the dongle even though it is not supported in quick start. But as it does not have a debugger, you cannot program it directly from VS Code (which is our prefered IDE), but you will need to use <a href="https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/nrf-connect-programmer/page/index.html">nRF Connect Programmer</a>. To get started with development, you need to install the <a href="https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/ncs-latest/page/nrf/installation.html">nRF Connect SDK</a>. Also,&nbsp;if you are new to nRF Connect SDK development, I suggest going through <a href="https://academy.nordicsemi.com/courses/nrf-connect-sdk-fundamentals/">nRF Connect SDK Fundamentals</a>.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>