nRF51822 BLE 4.0 Board

This a low cost prototyping board for the famous nRF51822 bluetooth low energy  chip from Nordiac Semiconductors. The System on Chip(SoC) has both a  32-bit ARM® Cortex™ M0 CPU  as well as a  embedded 2.4GHz RF transceiver. The board has most of the pins broken out on a .5 inch (1.27mm) 9 x 2 headers on both sides. It does not fit on a breadbord and is not user friendly. Hence with collabration with electronut.in, we have done a breakout board. The nRF51 E3 BO is a adapter board which we highly recommend you to buy with this board to make it usable and help will help you get started quickly. 

Features

• Single chip, highly flexible, 2.4 GHz multi-protocol device
• 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 CPU core
• 256kB flash, 32kB RAM
• Supports Bluetooth Smart protocol stacks
• Thread safe and run-time protected
• Event driven API
• On air compatible with nRF24L series
• 3 data rates (2Mbps/1Mbps/250kbps)
• +4dBm output power
• -93dBm sensitivity, Bluetooth Smart
• Configurable I/O mapping for analog and digital I/O

Resources:

• Nordiac Product Page: lists whole lot of resources for the IC including detailed specifications, datasheets, Reference designs and other resources

Tutorials:

• electronut Tutorials: This was one of the very important reasons for our collabration, do check out these very detailed tutorials​

  • Motor Control over BLE with nRF51822 and TB6612FNG

  • nRF51822 Begins - nRF-DK, GCC, ADC, UART/BLE

  • External nRF51822 SWD Programming using the nRF51-DK

  • nRF51-DK PWM & GPIOTE test with S110 SoftDevice

  • Talking to Ultrasonic Distance Sensor HC-SR04 using nRF51822

  • Controlling an RGB LED with Nordic nRF51-DK (nRF51822/nRF51422)

• Programming nRF51822 with STlink on Windows