RE: Micro:bit board

marc_is_curious — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:49:37 GMT

Thanks for your reply & hint –

I contacted

- Micro:bit support & learned that there are Altium Software based open Source PCB files (via Github)

- Farnell (I assume that they produced it from what I read on BBC's Micro:bit project site ) & hope that they may provide links or even Eagle files

I had a look at NRF51 reference designs, liked them a lot!

The Micro:bit board is more suitable for my purposes. It comes with ...

- easy & plenty of coding examples & option for Microsoft's MakeCode (amongst other scripting options)

- LED Matrixes, Accelerometer, Magnetometer, Bluetooth, Nordic's nRF51822, embedded Buttons, lots of analog & digital & GPIO Pins etc.

- less expensive pricing (at least at Digikey)

RE: Micro:bit board

Turbo J — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:50:50 GMT

Wrong vendor. NordicSemi only produces one of the (several) chips on the board. You need to contact the team that produced the Micro:bit PCB (printed circuit board).

But you are probably better off with one of the NRF51 reference designs.