Nordic DevZone

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…

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…

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…

There are different ways of measuring the current consumed by the nRF9160 SIP. Using a dedicated power analyzer is usually the preferred way, as it is often able to accurately measure and plot current…

Objectives Provide a brief primer to NCS and Zephyr Provide a quick-start guide to adding peripherals to an existing sample project Demonstrate running both foreground and background tasks within Zephyr…

Note: From NCS v1.7.0 onwards, the settings discussed in this guide are included in the board files for the Thingy:91. Therefore, as long as you build for the thingy91_nrf9160_ns or thingy91_nrf52840,…

If you’re thinking about building a network of sensors and you begin to survey the options, you’re likely to encounter a frothing sea of acronyms representing a variety of standards and protocols clamoring…

Background Some time ago I was working on a project that involved communication between Bluetooth mesh and a home automation platform. The goal of this project was to enable control and observability of…

Introduction The question of how to update advertising data dynamically using the BLE Advertising library has been raised many times by our forum-goers, especially after the release of nRF5 SDK v15.2.0…