nRF51822 and RFDUINO

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Dear SOC developpers, 
 As many kickstarters i bought an RFDUINO kit, then I made a cool prototype thanks to the easy Arduino compatibility. I'm now thinking of industrializing it. It leads me to some dummy questions :) sorry and thanks in advance for your patience: 
 -What does it takes to load the RFDUINO bootloader (I'm not sure to use the right term) in a nRF51822 ? 
 -Is the RFDUINO bootloader available open source? 
 -Assuming that I now have a nRF51822 with the RFDUINO bootloader, what is the process to upload my aduino sketch in the thousands of nRF51822 chips? Could it be done by NordicSemi or compnies can do that customization work? 
 Thanks for your help,

Philip Freidin · Accepted Answer

The right place to ask this is probably here: http://forum.rfduino.com/ 
 From forum.rfduino.com/index.php The module can be bought with bootloader
already in it, part number RFD22301 
 If you don't want to use the module, and build your own PCB with nRF51822 chips, the
following forum.rfduino.com/index.php indicates 2 things: 
 
 
 You can get directly to the nRF51822 chip on the module, but doing so will overwrite the bootloader.
You can do this using the Nordic supplied J-Link Lite in the DK kit. This is not a useful development path if you want to continue using the Arduino development tools. 
 
 
 The Bootloader software is not available at this time. 
 
 
 Looking at your specific questions: 
 
 -What does it takes to load the RFDUINO bootloader (I'm not sure to use the right term) in a nRF51822 ? 
 
 and 
 
 -Is the RFDUINO bootloader available open source? 
 
 Bootloader is not open source at this time. 
 
 what is the process to upload my arduino sketch in to thousands of nRF51822 chips? 
 
 Contact RFDigital, maybe they would like to do this type of manufacturing. 
 Your alternative is to migrate your application out of Arduino land, and just do normal nRF51822 development in C, and use normal Nordic supplied software development kit (SDK) and evaluation boards (EK) and development boards (DK) to get you project ready for production in "thousands". 
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nRF51822 and RFDUINO

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