Help getting started with nRF52 development

[SolidGeek]

Hi

For the last three days, I have been trying to become familiar with the process of developing on the nRF52 DK. It has not been easy, and I still don't have a clue about most features.

This is how far I have gotten.

• Installed Segger Embedded Studio (SES)
• Downloaded nRF52 SDK 15.3.0
• Compiled and uploaded some examples from the SDK, f.x. the blinky example

Now, this is by scavenging information from various sources on the internet, often getting stuck with dead links to the official Nordic documentation.

I come from the well documented world of Arduino and web programming, so this is all very frustrating to me. The examples are very poorly commented and very hard for nRF52 virgin like myself to understand. Thus, I got a lot of questions, I hope some of you can answer

1. Are there any up-to-date and easy to follow guides for beginners?
2. Where to find documentation in general for basic functionality (both software and hardware pins)
3. How to create a bare-bone project in SES for the nRF52
4. How should I include libraries from the SDK to my "new project"
5. What the heck is the sdk_config.h for?
6. How to enable debugging with the NRF_LOG_INFO() command? Preferable inside the SES IDE.

I have been using the nRF24 modules in conjunction with an Atmega processor, but I would love to replace this with an nRF52, however it seems to be a much bigger task than expected

[Bjørn Kvaale]

1) See answer 2.

2) There is some great documentation on our Nordic Infocenter. I would also recommend checking out our blogs & tutorials at this link here.

3) I would start with a simple project, such as Blinky. You could also take a look at the ble template example, although that one is more complicated to understand.

4) This youtube playlist should help explain things.

5) The configuration wizard lets you enable & disable modules & features of your project. See this video for more info.

6) See answer 4.