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Review on πŸ’» USB Dongle for nRF52840 Micro Development Kit by Tommy Almasri

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Agree "incredibly difficult to use "

I've probably gone from "amateur" to "beginner" in this microchip business, and I agree completely agree with the comment " Incredibly difficult to use". It says it's supported by PlatformIO, but real-world testing seems to have proven this wrong. I even spent hours setting up a cubeless manual build chain for it. Nordic Tools wouldn't even recognize their own device. I (think?) was able to update the UF2 bootloader, but it's debatable at best if it actually worked because I have no idea how to tell if it worked or not. There is a lot of conflicting documentation on how to work with the chip, most of it seems out of date, and even more recent material with commands that actually matched the tools refused to work. That got me very interested in NFC/RFID. side of things. If you're interested too, take a look at Puck.js. It was much easier to work with him.

Pros
  • handy thingy
Cons
  • so far so good