nRF8001 DK

[omer]

Hi,

I have just opened my nRF8001 DK. It seems like for the evaluation of the nRF8001, I also need to purchase a nRFgo Motherboard, which is sold separetely.

Where does it say explicitly, that I need extra HW compenent, in order to use the nRF8001 kit?

Without this motherboard, does it mean, that I cannot do anything?

Thanks, Omer

[omer]

Hi Star Destroyer,

In my project, I would like to create a beacon, which will be programmed (the content of the advertisement packet) by a smart phone and the programmed data will be continuously broadcast. Once the beacon reaches a certain place, the content of the broadcast data will be received by another receiver. This receiver could be another smart phone.

Thanks for cautioning me, but I am aware of the small size of the advertisement package, but it should be good enough for my application.

Since I am targeting as programming device a smart phone (basically a wireless device) and the beacon has to be small, I guess, I need to skip my idea to use nRF8001, since it will always need a MCU.

Would nRF51822 be able to accomplish this task by itself? Because it has a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 CPU core? Basically, would I be able to create a small beacon only using nRF51822?

Thanks