nrf51822 starting from scratch

RE: nrf51822 starting from scratch

Mehmet Nuri — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:35:01 GMT

Thanks for replying this quick. I will just bought the development kit. I think it will arrive in 1 week. Thanks for help again. See you around.

RE: nrf51822 starting from scratch

Daniel Wang — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:07:21 GMT

Buy a nRF51-DK(or better, a nRF52-DK), and start with the Getting started section here. Btw, there is an on-board j-link programmer/debugger on the board, you can even use it to program your custom boards later.

RE: nrf51822 starting from scratch

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:52:47 GMT

I suggest you start with the Nordic DK first instead of your custom board as many examples from the SDK are built for the DK. Once you are familiar with it then you can port it to your custom board. So that incase the port didn't work out of the box, at least you have a reference to debug the problem.
Softdevice is the Bluetooth stack. You will need it if you want to BLE. As I mention there are many example code in the SDK. Working with the SDK requires more advance programming knowledge than Arduino.
There are places where you can get tutorial from here are few
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/tutorials/
http://embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.ca/p/ehal-nrf51.html