Red Dear Lab Development board

[Hani Abidi]

Would you recommend purchasing Red Dear Lab Development Board? Or should I get an EVKIT from Nordic Semiconductors?

Nordic Semiconductor eval kits are expensive and shipping time is more. I can get Red Dear Kit From Amazon.

My other concern is software code resources. Do both have equal resources available? I am considering to purchase:

www.amazon.com/.../ref=sr_1_4

Thanks Hani Abidi

[David Edwin]

You will get access to Nordic software resources when you purchase a redbearlab board is my understanding See http://redbearlab.com/nrf51822-sdk/ . However the best place to confirm is with Redbearlab support.

You must note that the RedbearLab board is using the nRF51822 (BTLE and proprietary)while the Nordic boards use the nRF51422 (i.e. ANT, BTLE and proprietary capable) The debugger on the RedbearLab board is a CMSIS-DAP while the debugger on the Nordic boards are Segger based.

However if the Nordic boards are not available to you, this seems to be a reasonable option.

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

Other alternative is the IMM-NRF51822 module 23x17mm. All 30 i/o are routed out to the pins. It comes with nordic product key for access to the SDK. Does not have jtag on board. Free Eclipse development resource from this blog site embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.ca/.../ehal-nrf51.html with full source code examples with iOS code. All examples code are complementary to one already provided by SDK.

The module is avail on the blog site, on Tindie or eBay