Arduino SDK no longer available

[K. Townsend]

The Arduino SDK by David Edwin linked to here is no longer available since the Bluetooth forum seems to be down, and has been for some time: devzone.nordicsemi.com/arduino

Is there an alternative download source for these files?

[Renzo N]

Thank you Matthew, I was also looking for those files all over internet and couldn't found it except in your link.

Another question.. what is the difference between David Edwin's Arduino SDK and the official Nordic's Arduino SDK?

For what I've compared Nordic's Official Arduino SDK is D. Edwin's more well documented and with some changes.. anyone can confirm?

Thanks again,

Renzo

• devzone.nordicsemi.com/arduino
• devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../ble-sdk-arduino-0.1.1.zip

[Ole Morten]

That is a correct observation. The plan is still to put the cleaned up version out on GitHub officially when some further clean-ups have been done.

[Fred Roeber]

I am confused. I'm adding BLE to our product prototype and after looking around decided to use nRF8001 to add BLE to the Teensy3 Arduino processor board we are hosting most of our SW on. I got the nRF8001 dev kit and had started porting the nRF8001 SDK files and was almost done. But I want to just use emulated serial communications over BLE as a first step because then I can use the same methods our prototype uses for talking via serial over USB.

This Arduino BLE SDK seems to be a better way to go than trying to port the normal SDK files as the code seems more focused and compact and much of the porting work with the examples has already been done. But I'm really not sure what the story is with this SDK. I had gotten those files Matt has on his site from other sources and looked at them. Then just yesterday I found the Arduino SDK version on this devzone that Renzo lists in this post (including the https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/arduino post Ole wrote). Renzo asks "For what I've compared Nordic's Official Arduino SDK is D. Edwin's more well documented and with some changes.. anyone can confirm?" and Ole says this is correct. So I take that to mean that if I was starting today (which I am), the best approach would be to start with the ble-sdk-arduino-0.1.1 files. Right? They do seem "better/cleaner" than David Edwin's original version. But the numbering of the versions threw me as David's have names like 0_5_0_RC3_no_wires2.zip so I would think 0.5.0 was "better" than 0.1.1. But that doesn't seem to be true.

One last thing I'm trying to figure out is whether this Arduino SDK is "qualified" the way the normal nRF8001 SDK code is? We will want to use this SW I'm doing in a real product so want it qualified.

Oh, and it might be nice if these discussions about this Arduino SDK could be in one central place for everyone to find (eg the https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/arduino post).