nRF51822 without buying DK/EK?

RE: nRF51822 without buying DK/EK?

Bastiaan — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:16:22 GMT

You could use http://www.lairdtech.com/Products/Embedded-Wireless-Solutions/Bluetooth-Radio-Modules/BL600-Series/ which requires no toolchain to write your own BLE in BASIC language. You have access to all the interfaces (uart,i2c.spi.gpio) with high level api and can even create any custom service you want.

RE: nRF51822 without buying DK/EK?

Guest — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:16:22 GMT

RE: nRF51822 without buying DK/EK?

Ole Morten — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:27:43 GMT

Unfortunately, this is the way it currently is, and there isn't much I can do about it in the short term at least. :-/

RE: nRF51822 without buying DK/EK?

Guest — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:13:48 GMT

Still better then Texas solution (IAR costs too much), but damn, why Nordic charges for that information? They're already making money with the chips, but I guess that 100€ it's not a problem for a company but for some hobbyists that just want to play around it could be an expense that they just don't want to have and, sometimes, those hobbyists eventually build companies selling the stuff that they used to play with and nordic just lost some millions in BLE transceiver sales (it's a dramatic opinion but it's not impossible).

Btw, congrats on the GCC+Eclipse solution, if I had 100€ right now I would totally love to work with that transceiver, keep up the good work :)

RE: nRF51822 without buying DK/EK?

Bastiaan — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:13:48 GMT

Btw, congrats on the GCC+Eclipse solution, if I had 100€ right now I would totally love to work with that transceiver, keep up the good work :)

RE: nRF51822 without buying DK/EK?

Ole Morten — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:42:28 GMT

Normally, you'd have to buy some kit to get a product key and a programmer/debugger, and I do think you'd be better off doing that. However, I know that some other guys here have been working on getting things up and running without a J-Link, for example as discussed here.

I do think you'd make your life easier by getting a Development Kit or Evaluation Kit, and it's the only way to get official access to the softdevice and SDKs.