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One SDK for nRF5x SoC The latest SDK is now available in alpha version for nRF51 and nRF52 SoC. A big change with this SDK is that we have merged the SDK for both nRF5x SoCs into one SDK. This will hopefully make development simpler and more straigh...

GPS for Bluetooth Smart In 2014 I've developed a Bluetooth Smart apps couple to transmit and receive a GPS location and speed with this nice technology. The apps are called LE GPS (transmitter, peripheral role) and LE GPS Rec (receiver, central rol...

The next evolution of nRFready Smart Remote is here Nordic has for a number of years catered to the remote control engineering community with our high performance feature-laden smart remote reference designs. The 3rd generation nRFready Smart Remo...

We are now one step closer to the production release (v1.0) of our new Bluetooth Smart desktop application. The development team has been hard at work adding new features and improving the existing functionality of the application. Figure 1: Servi...

We have recently released a new version of the nRF5 Software Development Kit (SDK) for IoT, an IPv6-ready Internet Protocol Suite for Nordic's nRF52 Series Bluetooth Smart SoCs. In addition to enabling native and interoperable Internet Protocol (IP) ...

Senior lecturing staff at PKU with representatives from Smart Device Innovationn Lab sponsors ARM, ST and Nordic Nordic has over the past 18 months or so been working in partnership with ARM on a partnership program for universities called ‘Lab-in...

###Other relevant posts For an overview of current measurement basics, see this post: Introduction For a concise guide to setting up measurement equipment with the nRF52832 development kit, see this post: Measuring current with PCA10040 v0.9.0 ...

###Other relevant posts For an overview of current measurement basics, see this post: Introduction A post that describes how to measure current on the nRF52821 Engineering B with SoftDevice s132 v2.0.0-7.alpha and shows the results of some measur...

Check the infocenter explanation There are lots of improvements in nRF52 compared to nRF51. Features that are the same in both products are not mentioned here, only changes worth mentioning will be described. It is expected that you have prior knowl...

It is exciting to see that the Bluetooth SIG officially announced a preview of its technology roadmap for 2016[1]. This will enable new applications and innovative products with Bluetooth Smart in the future that take advantage of the benefits of lo...

An automatic radio test was developed based on Enhanced Shockburst (ESB), which works for all the nRF Series Chips including, nRF24LE1, nRF24LU1P, nRF51x22, as well as nRF52832. Source code is available as attached. ##What's it for?## The Purposes...

Over the last few weeks the Nordic team has been working on getting support for programming our devices in Linux as well as adding support for using our Python programming module ‘Pynrfjprog’ with Python 3. We are pleased to report that this support...

OSX command line application for performing an nRF51 device firmware update: https://github.com/jeremysf/nrfDFU This is a simple command line program I wrote based on Nordic's documentation and their RF Toolbox https://github.com/NordicSemiconducto...

This tutorial shows how to build and debug Bluetooth LE beacon firmware for the nRF51 Beacon Kit. We will use Segger J-Link together with a Tag Connect cable to debug the beacon. We will show how to use an Android phone with the Nordic nRF Toolbox Ap...

In this project, we will build a two-wheeled robot based on the Nordic nRF51822 BLE SoC. Motor control for the two wheels of the robot will be done using an L293D chip. The robot can be controlled using any mobile device that has BLE, and when not ...

The Cannybot Brain is a robotics controller board that uses the Nordic Semiconductor nRF51822 at its core. The board has been developed by Cannybots Limited in Cambridge, UK. One of Cannybots core values is connecting kids to the modern technology t...

In corporation with Nordic Semiconductor we are happy to announce our programming services! Your flexible programming center is based in Gothenburg, Sweden at HI-LO Electronics AB Advantages with pre-programming: Avoid time-consuming programming...

Over the last few months we have been working on a new desktop application for Bluetooth Smart devices which will give you easy access to the most common Bluetooth features and allows you to control locally connected, compatible Nordic devices. We h...

Ever wondered how the nRF51822-based BBC Micro:bit first started to come to life?....Then read on.... Working with the BBC on micro:bit: Part 1 - using the mbed HDK For the last few months, we’ve been hard at work helping the BBC and its partners i...

It’s that time again The Nordic Global Tech Tour is about to hit the road again. This time it is all about the goodies inside our nRF52 Series for Bluetooth Smart and what they enable you to do. The Nordic Global Tech Tour (GTT) is always an exci...

Since I couldn't find the information of how the supply current would change with different supply voltage for nrf51 chip, this is the result of a little test that I made to get this info. Setup: nrf51 DK with variable voltage source connected to P2...

I have been using Eclipse to programming+build+flash+debugging my nRF51 DK apps. This requires carrying a Makefile forward, modifying as stuff changes...handling flash programming in less integrated way.... I was successful taking the Blinky exampl...

I've updated my article on external SWD programming using the nRF51-DK. I have also designed an adapter board for these modules. http://electronut.in/nrf51-dk-external-programming/#E3BO

Here is a small guide on how to build Wireshark with a BLE plugin under linux, with a small example on using this plugin with the Nordic Sniffer API. ##Prerequisites nRF Dongle (PCA10031/PCA10000) or similar Working installation of SEGGER J-Link...

In this post, we try to setup OpenWRT on a Japanese router, Buffalo WZR-600DHP, which has a Atheros AR7161 in side. The officail guide by OpenWRT could be found here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/buffalo/wzr-600dhp We choose the easiest way of &quot...