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I absolutely love Adafruit tech for low-volume hardware hacking projects. Particularly the Feather nRF52832 [0]: onboard flash, Bluetooth Low Energy, a 5V-to-3.
by mintplant 7y ago
I absolutely love Adafruit tech for low-volume hardware hacking projects. Particularly the Feather nRF52832 [0]: onboard flash, Bluetooth Low Energy, a 5V-to-3.3V converter, and USB battery charging all in one little off-the-shelf board. And the runtime [1] and bootloader [2] are totally open! I'm tinkering with my own little fork to add signed updates, lock down the OTA DFU mechanism, and switch to a more secure BLE pairing mode.
By the way, if anyone knows of an alternative to the RedBear Nano V2 [3] in terms of form factor and power profile, please let me know, since Particle is sadly killing that board off after buying out RedBear. Glad I don't have to worry about that with Adafruit.
[0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406 https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406
[1] https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino
[2] https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader
[3] https://store.particle.io/products/redbear-nano-v2 https://store.particle.io/products/redbear-nano-v2
- codesushi42 7y agoHave you looked into an ESP32? It has on board WiFi and Bluetooth.
- mintplant 7y agoI have! Neat little chip, and I'll keep it in mind if I need WiFi in a future project.
- hartzell 7y agoI think that you wanted your first link to be: [0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406 https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406
- mintplant 7y agoOops, yes. Fixed.