It's an old chestnut the pairing conundrum, how to make it safe and secure yet so simple people aren't left confused and frustrated whilst trying to pair products. Bluetooth Smart currently has 3 pairing options:
Passkey entry
Just Works
OOB
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When I decided to attempt the reprogramming of my nRF51822 Beacon Kit I read several posts related to the task. The information I needed was there but I found it to be a bit scattered. It was difficult for me to put it all together; particularly so a...
The Infocenter – our new documentation portal - has now been up and running since June and contains all of our technical documentation. We saw the need for this because we wanted to make our complete library more visible, and since the documentation...
We recently announced that we now support “extended industrial temperature range” (-40 – 105C) on our nRF51822.
The devices supporting -40 - 105C are the QFAA (QFN with 256kB flash and 16kB RAM) and the CEAA (WCSP with 256kB flash and 16kB RAM) vers...
Introduction
Using proprietary protocols can be an effective way of addressing shortcomings in BLE. When communicating between two nRF chips, one can for example use a different packet format or different symbol rate to improve throughput or increas...
Hello everybody,
I have just published the sourcecode of FruityMesh on GitHub. It is a meshing algorithm that uses standard BLE connections. Plug in as many nodes as you like and they will automatically build a mesh without any user interaction. Y...
This tutorial shows how to create and debug a basic project for the Nordic nRF51-DK using Visual Studio. Before you begin, install VisualGDB 5.0 or later.
Start Visual Studio and begin creating a new project using VisualGDB Embedded Project Wizar...
In this project, we will control two motors over BLE using the Nordic nRF51-DK. To do this, we will use a motor driver based on the Toshiba TB6612FNG chip. We will use GPIOs and PWM to communicate with this board.
Read details here:
http://electr...
This blog introduces how to create tunnel broker service in order to support IPv6 on your IPv4
network.
The tunnel broker is providing IP conversion service with 6in4.
Preparation
Raspberry Pi with Installed raspbian and 6LowPAN module
Follo...
Hello all, this tutorial goes to a fellow named Emil who helped me with this project.
Number 1_ Make sure you set up the terminal viewer For debugging with real.You need it to see the values coming outta your ADXL 345 chip in the case you don't hav...
Hi Everyone!
At Sky Wave Design, we recently switched all of our Nordic development over to using GCC and using Qt Creator as the IDE.
We have released our example project on github for those of you that could use an example as well as a readme on ...
Introduction
Here are some tips and tricks to manage your application size.
RAM and ROM usage
The total RAM usage is:
ZI-data + RW-data
The total flash usage is:
Code + RO-data + RW-data
ZI-data - Zero initialized data, data variables ...
Obligatory Disclaimer
Security is hard. If a product handles sensitive information then it is the engineer's responsibility to his customers to consult a security professional. However, experimenting with security should be encouraged whenever possi...
