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Re:How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @08:46AM (#43983868)
Not in Zephyr. There's a full BLE Controller in source code form there.
Re:Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040 on Friday July 05, 2024 @05:50AM (#40881341)
Also it should be trivial to build using the GNU Arm Embedded toolchain if the author did not want to install the Zephyr SDK, not sure why this did not work for them.
Re:Hacking a cheap fitness tracker bracelet on Monday May 28, 2018 @02:48PM (#17174053)
Hi author, nice hacking and writeup!. Nordic employee here. Note that if instead of the SoftDevice and the SDK you would've used Zephyr then you'd be able to do the same you did but with a fully open source software stack, including all layers of the BLE protocol stack. More here https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
With mbed you can compile everything from the browser, and Nordic's userspace code can be compiled on any platform with GCC.