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  • Conferences Plus - IoT Contest winner

    What, How and Why? The aim of this project was to create the system facilitating the management of big conferences. The first step was to think what a potential end user would like to achieve by using this kind of system. As the result of this ...
  • IoT Contest - Mini-Weather Station - Project

    The role of this device is remote measurement environment parameters. It could be accessed anywhere where access to the internet is possible. It uses 6LoWPAN because it's modern IoT technology and have big capability. It is satisfying to create ow...
  • External nRF51822 SWD Programming using the nRF51-DK

    I've written up a note on programming external nRF51822 boards (like the RedBearLab Nano) using the SWD interface of the nRF51-DK. http://electronut.in/nrf51-dk-external-programming/
  • Getting started with nRF51822 and GCC - transmitting LDR light levels over BLE

    I've written up a simple project that uses the nRF51-DK to send LDR light levels over BLE using the Nordic UART Service (NUS). In the process, I have set up a cross-platform toolchain (OS X, Windows) using GCC. Hopefully this will help some like me i...
  • IoT Contest MINI ECG

    <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="2050"/> <![endif]-->   Idea: Currently on the market we can find doznes of applications which monitor health parameters in real-time. They gather data (l...
  • nRF52832-QFN Eagle Part/Footprint

    Hello everyone, I've started an nRF52832 library for those devs who are interested in creating their PCB's in Eagle. Its the QFN chip right now. I read somewhere that a BGA version is planned also, so I'll try to add that in the future. It's locat...
  • Start Up Extreme Norway

    Last week I attended what was my first Startup event, but after experiencing the energy there, I can safely say it will not be my last. 3 days of seminars, networking and lots of fun kicked off in Bergen last Wednesday. It was an eclectic mix of en...
  • Step by Step Guide to Setup and Start Developing with the nRF51 DK and Keil

    The purpose of this blog is to provide a step by step guide to help a developer, starting off with the Nordic Semiconductor nRF51 DK, get the tools installed and get the software (SW) development environment setup so that the user can start developin...
  • Debugging using QtCreator on Mac

    This post started as a question, but got the suggestion to post this as a blog post. Here it is. I have been trying to get QtCreator configured such that I can use it as my IDE for the nrf51822 on Mac OSX. I use the NRF51DK as hardware, but also had...
  • Trying OpenWRT Chaos Calmer (15.05 RC1) on Raspberry Pi 2

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  • Trying OpenWRT Chaos Calmer (15.05 RC1) on Asus RT-N16

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  • Compatibility between DFU bootloader and DFU master

    We have been receiving quite a few questions about the compatibility issue between the bootloaders from different SDK versions and the DFU master such as nRF Master Control Panel, nRFToolbox, etc. In this post, we will try to explain and give you in...
  • "OpenWRT Series" #1: setting up TP-Link WDR4300 (or N750) for Bluetooth Low Energy 6LoWPAN

    The first version of Nordic IoT SDK has been released over 6 months. Till now, there have been no well-known router solutions supporting Bluetooth Low Energy over IPv6. This made us the BLE application developers holding back from considering IPv6 in...
  • The S110 7.3

    We are now releasing the S110 7.3 (s110_nrf51822_7.3.0). This is a new production release in the S110 7.x series. (It will be uploaded today or early next week.) This is a bugfix release - as the release notes say, it fixes an issue where the Soft...
  • A presentation on how nRF51 DFU works

    Hi, I attached here some slides that we used in our technical seminar for Device Firmware Update. Download the presentation here: DFU_SDKv8.0_Pub.pdf The presentation covers: What DFU is and what bootloader does Two types of DFU, single bank a...

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