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

[David Edwin]

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.

[Bastiaan]

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

[Guest]

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