Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

RE: Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

mr_creosote — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 23:24:35 GMT

Do the following to have the arduino programmer work within your IDE. No debugging, of course.

Flash programming parameters: Flash menu item: 
Flash | Configure Flash Tools | Utilities tab:
[X] Use External Tool for Flash Programming
Command: perl
Arguments: "<your location>Programmer.pl" "#H" <your com port>

e.g.

"C:\nRF24LE1_Programmer-master\Programmer\Programmer.pl" "#H" COM5

should generate

perl "C:\nRF24LE1_Programmer-master\Programmer\Programmer.pl" "C:\My nRF projects\test.hex" COM5

RE: Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

mr_creosote — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:29:10 GMT

$5 PROGRAMMER: You can use an Arduino Nano or Uno as a programmer. see hackaday.io/.../5794-nrf24le1-wiring-library and the github lib it points to. i've added a connection diagram for a Chinese nRF24LE1 board: raw.githubusercontent.com/.../Arduino Uno to nRF24LE1 pin mapping.png. an Arduino Nano works well too.

TOOLCHAINS: Keil compiler with the 4KB increased limit (serial # for it is in the nrfgo SDK help file). nrfgo SDK. Arduino IDE.

CODE CHANGE: I made a small change to the Arduino and the enhanced shockburst code examples from Nordic without which I was having trouble doing software serial I/O between the nRF and the Arduino. Connect P0.3 of the nRF to the Arduino's D07 (pin 7). Let me know if you want it, I haven't posted it online yet.

RE: Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

Ram02 — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:32:56 GMT

Yup. Stackexchange comes first to my mind, one limitation, you cannot post questions like 'what soc to choose?', which are design related stuff. Hmm. Reg studio, I think I'll have to take a look at it before I decide though.

RE: Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

wlgrd — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:23:06 GMT

In general, electronics.stackexchange.com. but for Nordic devices, you are already here ;) And don't mind studio, you don't really need it. Just learn nrfjprog instead :)

RE: Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

Ram02 — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:46:47 GMT

One question, completely irrelevant to this. What electronic design forums are more active with large user base?

RE: Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

Ram02 — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:45:16 GMT

Oh! I think that would be an issue. I havent had experience with any nordic ICs, and not having Studio will make it little harder I guess. And Regarding LE1 vs 51822, The sleep mode current is less with LE1 than with 51822. As with cost per unit, 51822 is less. With the debugger cost and cost per unit being a concern, I think I'll have to rethink now!!

RE: Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

wlgrd — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:29:13 GMT

Well, I haven't tried it myself, but I guess you will have trouble using studio. That being said, tools like Keil and nrfjprog should work as long as there is a debugger on the kit, which it definitely should be. Since they have DKs for 51 and 52 quite cheap, I guess there has to be a more official, low cost solution for the previous chipsets as well(?). But why use LE1 instead of 51822?

RE: Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

Ram02 — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:03:58 GMT

Thanks. One concern though, Have you used these chinese dev kits, do they work just like the nordic's dev kit(do they work well with nordics ide and support tools)?

RE: Low Cost Alternative for nFR24LE1 Development kit?

wlgrd — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 12:58:19 GMT

m.alibaba.com/.../NRF24LE1-Development-Kit-board.html