RE: What is the nRF52-DK used for in this special Nordic-out-of-the-box example ?

Susheel Nuguru — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:06:46 GMT

just a small addition to leanwj perfect answer.

Thingy52 does not have OBD (On Board Debugger), So you need an external debugger to connect to the SWD lines of the thingy to flash new firmware. We normally use nRF-DK to program other devices with SWD lines due to debug-out lines gives on the DK makes it easy for us to do.

You can use any other external flasher instead of nRF-DK, with and SWD interface to flash Thingy52

RE: What is the nRF52-DK used for in this special Nordic-out-of-the-box example ?

leonwj — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:08:44 GMT

hello betzebubi,

Yes, as per the github README.md requirements, either a Nordic nRF5x-DK or Segger J-Link debugger is required (or I should say the easier way) to flash firmware to the Nordic-Thingy52.

See this post and this post for further details..

Regards,