RE: mbed os alternative

mark waldin — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:39:35 GMT

Thank you both. I really appreciate it and am starting to learn it.

RE: mbed os alternative

Bjørn Kvaale — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:51:16 GMT

I agree with RK. In addition, Nordic has a great Youtube playlist for getting started with Segger Embedded Studio.

RE: mbed os alternative

RK — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 01:52:58 GMT

Lots of recommendations.

mbed is somewhat (in my opinion) like Arduino, a simple way to start programming embedded systems but eventually limited by the one-size-fits-all approach. You also tend to end up with least common denominator code which polls instead of uses interrupts because that model works for everything. That's somewhat inefficient.

If you want to pull the full power out of the device and really use all the features it's better to move to the SDK for the product and program it that way.

Since Nordic recently did a deal with Segger to provide the Segger Embedded Studio platform for free even for commercial development for anyone writing nRF51 or nRF52 code and they are now, in the latest SDKs even providing full SES projects you can use, I always recommend using Segger Embedded Studio, compiling, running and debugging the example projects until you understand how they work, and then building from there.

it's free, it's supported by Nordic and Segger and the easiest way to get into the SDK.