I just finished reading the O'Reilly book "Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy: Tools and Techniques for Low-Power Networking" where the author uses the nRF51822-EK evaluation kit in a lot of his projects. This kit included two development boards: The Nordic PCA10001 and the PCA10000. The PCA10001 is the main development board for the kit and the PCA10000 is a small USB dongle used primarily for debugging as it can be used as a central device or as a sniffer to push data to Wireshark.
I'd love to purchase the kit, but it appears to be no longer available. It seems nRF52 has replaced it. Looking at the usual places online (DigiKey, Mouser), I'm not seeing a similar evaluation kit for the nRF52. Instead I see the main board and what *I think* is the USB dongle available separate:
The current main board (i.e. what I think is essentially the current version of the PCA10001): https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/949-NRF52-DK
The USB dongle for debugging (i.e. what I think is essentially the current version of the PCA10000): https://www.mouser.com/new/nordicsemiconductor/nordic-nrf52840-usb-dongle/
Can someone please confirm this is what's best to replace using the PCA10001 and PCA10000 together for development and debugging from a PC? I want to be able to use the USB dongle as a "central" and the other board as a "peripheral" and use a program like Nordic Master Control Panel (which appears to have been replaced by nRF Connect) to debug communication between the two.
-Terence
