Anyone working on a port to Nordics PCA10059 Dongle?

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WhiteHare
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Re: Anyone working on a port to Nordics PCA10059 Dongle?

Post by WhiteHare » Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:51 pm

I flashed the PCA10056 firmware onto the dongle, but unfortunately, I couldn't then communicate with the dongle because the exposed pins for doing UART on the PCA10056 aren't exposed on the dongle.

That's why I posted this inquiry: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5350

which no one has yet answered.

In theory, it might be possible to communicate with the dongle by radio though, if the firmware were to power up with some kind of radio REPL. I have posted another couple of inquiries to see if that might be done, but so far I'm still waiting on a reply to them as well:

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5370

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5364

kak
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Re: Anyone working on a port to Nordics PCA10059 Dongle?

Post by kak » Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:27 am

The DK has TxD at P0.06, and RxD at P0.08. The Dongle has LED1 at P0.06 and LED2_R at P0.08.
It shouldn't be too complicated to solder wires to the series resistors of the LEDs.

On the DK, the RxD and TxD pins of the nRF52840 are connected to the serial port of the onboard Segger debugger, that maps it as USB CDC to the PC.

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