nRF8001 DK

RE: nRF8001 DK

Bastiaan — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:52:56 GMT

Hi Star Destroyer,

Thanks for your feedbacks, they are very useful for me.

Just to summarize and make sure that I understand it correctly. I can write an api in a smart phone and modify the broadcast data in the nRF51822 (standalone, without any need of other chip) in a wireless fashion and after that read the same data via another api in the smart phone.

The chip nRF51822 is capable doing this.

Thanks

RE: nRF8001 DK

Guest — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:52:56 GMT

Hi Star Destroyer,

Thanks for your feedbacks, they are very useful for me.

The chip nRF51822 is capable doing this.

Thanks

RE: nRF8001 DK

David Edwin — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 09:50:55 GMT

The nRF51822 will definitely be able to accomplish this task. The nRF51822 does not have the visual interface that the nRF8001 has, but you will be able to accomplish all that you need by writing C code. Yes the nRF8001 requires an external MCU but it can also be put in pretty small packages and that will depend on your PCB layout and size of battery.

RE: nRF8001 DK

omer — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:54:16 GMT

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

RE: nRF8001 DK

David Edwin — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:34:49 GMT

Hi,

The nRF8001 DK is intended to be used with the nRFgo motherboard and that is usually well communicated.

http://www.semiconductorstore.com/cart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=46585&cm_mmc=Symmetry--SemiStore_Link--Catalogue_Item_Listing-_-NRF8001-DK

http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Bluetooth-R-low-energy/nRF8001-Development-Kit

Yes, you should be able to advertise any advertising data. There are limitations on the advertising data to 20bytes of data for each type of advertising data. The total advertising data should not exceed 31 bytes and an additional 31 bytes can be placed in the scan response.

Use the nRFgo studio -> nRF 8001 configuration -> GAP settings to set up exactly what you want for the advertising so you are sure that this works for you. The nRFgo studio is a free download from the nordicsemi website. http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/2.4GHz-RF/nRFgo-Studio

Thanks

RE: nRF8001 DK

omer — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:49:49 GMT

Hi Star Destroyer,

I thought, I could use nRF8001 DK, like the nRF8002 DK as standalone. If there is no statement (which I couldn't find), that I cannot do anything with the nRF8001DK, then I think it is a scam from Nordic.

There should be a statement for the nRF8001DK like there is in TI's case. I don't care with or without MCU, I purchased a DK and I would like to do accomplish something.

But, I thank you for your comments. I will need to raise this scam (if there is no statement) to the officials of the Nordic, this is not acceptable from my point of view.

On the other hand, all I am looking for is to program the data section of the advertisement packets and broadcast some data for test purposes. After that I would like to capture this data via a smart phone.

Would I be able to do this two step task with nRF8001 DK + Arduino board and with some SDK from Nordic?

Thanks for your help in advance.

RE: nRF8001 DK

David Edwin — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:41:42 GMT

Hi,

The nRF8001 is a connectivity chip so it requires a additional MCU.

You can have the MCU of your choice as the additional MCU. The Arduino provides a choice of MCU. The nRFgo motherboard is also a choice of MCU (it comes with the connectors for the 8051 that is included with the nRF8001 DK). The nRFgo motherboard is the typical option that is used with the DK however there are other options.

You can also choose to use the nRF8001 DK with ARM M0 and ARM M3 development boards (lpc1769 or lpc1114) and these are also choices that you have. You can also use the Maple (leaflabs.com) as the MCU or any of the launchpads, but you do need the MCU.

My apologies for any confusion caused.

Thank

RE: nRF8001 DK

omer — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:23:02 GMT

Is there any thing that I can do with my existing nRF8001 DK?

Is there any statement, that I need extra the Arduino board for this DK?

Thanks

RE: nRF8001 DK

David Edwin — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:04:31 GMT

Hi,

You can use the nRF8001 with an Arduino board and we have a SDK for using the nRF8001 with an Arduino. devzone.nordicsemi.com/arduino

Thanks