By John Leonard June 9, 2016 The fast-paced world of technology lets us create products and services that would have been impossible to imagine just a few years ago. With the smartphone market booming, consumers are now connected to the internet everywhere they go. Over the next few years, this will give rise to an even…
The nRF51824 is qualified to the automotive AEC-Q100 stress test qualification for integrated circuits and delivers the same flexible feature range and performance as Nordic’s highly successful nRF51822 SoC Oslo, Norway 2016/06/08 Nordic Semiconductor today announces the immediate availability of the nRF51824 Bluetooth® low energy (formerly Bluetooth Smart) SoC for the latest connected car intelligent…
By John Leonard June 7, 2016 Today’s consumers have a great appetite for the hottest new gadgets. New wearables and smartphones sell quickly, in huge numbers. They also collect huge amounts of data about users, such as where they’ve been and what they’ve been doing. But there are increasing concerns about the security of all…
‘E-Z App’ from model railroad maker Bachmann brings smartphone and tablet wireless touchscreen control and app-based interactivity to the model train market for the first time, reducing the startup cost and complexity of the hobby while representing the biggest technological advance in the model railroad market since its digitization in the late 1980s Oslo, Norway…
By Jon Gunnar Sponås June 2, 2016 Like all communication technologies, Bluetooth is a better fit for some applications than other. If you’re considering to use Bluetooth, there are some basic things that are really good to know! Here’s an outline of the primary factors that determine the effective range of Bluetooth communications, plus some ways to improve…
At the heart of the BBC micro:bit is a single Nordic Semiconductor nRF51822 Bluetooth low energy wireless technology System-on-Chip (SoC). This integrates the BBC micro:bit’s computer brain (a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 microprocessor) where the school child-created software code runs, and that also allows the BBC micro:bit to both wirelessly communicate with other BBC micro:bits,…
The Solar powered sensor beacon is powered only by the solar panel. External power management circuits and rechargeable batteries are required in typical solar powered applications, but the Solar powered sensor beacon is designed without this circuitry: making it as small, cheap, and power efficient as possible. The Solar powered sensor beacon firmware is, by…
This series of posts will describe a new toy here at Nordic: The nRF Hexapod. The post will be divided in multiple parts, this part describing the project in general and the hardware that is required. All parts of this project is open source so you can make one yourself. The hexapod is built to…
By Pål Kastnes May 31, 2016 An infographic of 4 types of area networks you need to know about: PAN, BAN, WAN and LPWAN. www.blog.nordicsemi.com
Zepp Soccer employs Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52832 SoC, the world’s most powerful Bluetooth low energy SoC, to support highly-demanding wireless sport-monitoring application Oslo, Norway 2016/05/31 Nordic Semiconductor today announces that California, U.S.-based wearable sports technology company, Zepp Labs, has launched a new wearable soccer sensor that employs Nordic’s nRF52832 System-on-Chip (SoC) to support the challenging Bluetooth®…
