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The biggest pain point when debugging an application on the nRF51 series is the inability to set breakpoints while the SoftDevice is active without triggering an assert. Although a workaround exists that…

The new Bluetooth 5 specification promises twice the speed and 4 times the range. Doubling the speed is achieved by increasing the on-air datarate to 2Mbps, while quadrupling the range is achieved by lowering…

PolyMCU is an Open Source Framework which has been designed to be as flexible as possible: host OS independent (support Linux, Windows, MacOS), support any toolchain (GCC, LLVM), any RTOS (ARM RTX, FreeRTOS…

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…