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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by wcunning on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:20AM (#29699556)
Any chance I can reuse one of these boards given that I have a few of these test kits? Or are the tools so bad that it's not worth it?
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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by logbiscuitswave on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:50AM (#29700739)
An nRF52 dev kit is like $30. It’s probably not worth the time and aggravation to try to repurpose one of these COVID tests unless you’re really determined. Nordic is one of the better vendors - their tools and docs aren’t too bad.
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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by floatboth on Monday December 27, 2021 @07:16AM (#29701868)
You also do not have to use their tools. Use Rust with nrf-rs, or Apache Mynewt (with a fully open source BLE stack), or libopencm3, or…
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