nRF51822 Beacon - starting with OSX

RE: nRF51822 Beacon - starting with OSX

FormerMember — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 07:01:23 GMT

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RE: nRF51822 Beacon - starting with OSX

Stefan Birnir Sverrisson — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:30:39 GMT

As Nguyen pointed out, you would need to connect a debugger in order to debug on the Beacon kit. However, for minor modifications of the Beacon code, it might be sufficient to use the bootloader that is present on the beacon kit to upload modified firmware. There is a guide on how to do that on this thread.

Anyway, the Beacon kit is targeted at beacons. If you need to do any major modifications to code or want to use it for something else than beacons, then evaluation kit or development kit would be recommended which have LEDs, buttons, and GPIO headers, as well as the debugger is enabled without any soldering.

RE: nRF51822 Beacon - starting with OSX

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 01:54:25 GMT

I haven't tried beacon yet. If it support OTA then you can use the nRF Toolbox to upload your code. But if you need to debug the code, then you'll need the jtag.

RE: nRF51822 Beacon - starting with OSX

polwart — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:15:00 GMT

That sounds encouraging. Soldering onto the board? I'm assuming there is an alternative? The Beacon claims to support over-the-air updates...

RE: nRF51822 Beacon - starting with OSX

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:25:13 GMT

It is not necessary to have a dev kit. You need a JTag probe compatible with the nRF51. Segger is the officially supported. You'll to be very good at soldering and to solder the jtag wiring on the beacon module.

For OS X development, you follow this blog to setup Eclipse and GCC. embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.ca/.../ehal-nrf51.html Example codes for BLE with iOS code as well. Although there are not yet any Beacon example on the blog site, it could serve as base setup for development. You can compile the beacon code from the Nordic SDK.