XIAO BLE SENSE: nrf52840 radio communication with nrf24L01+
Establishing a communication layer using the RF24 API
I recently received an XIAO BLE Sense board from https://www.seeedstudio.com/ based on the nrf52840 and have been playing around with it for a few days now. In that time I have been able to get audio recording working with my AutoAnalogAudio library, as well as establish basic radio communication with the nrf24l01+ modules. This thing is pretty sweet! It is very small, so I've been leaving it connected to the USB cable so I don't lose it, but its definitely a benefit.
One of the first things to know about this board is that it has a DFU functionality, so it switches ports while uploading, and goes back to the original port after uploading. This means that if you upload some code that crashes the device, you need to press the reset button twice quickly, and it will reaload into DFU mode on a different port, so you can re-upload some working code.
Secondly, if you get an error 'Property 'upload.tool.' is undefined' then you just need to select the correct upload port.
It also uses a USB-C connector, so make sure to have the correct cable handy.
Radio Communication:
To get radio communication working, I've written an Arduino library for the nrf52840 which can be found here: https://github.com/TMRh20/nrf_to_nrf It can be installed just like any other Arduino library.
The library includes one example for now, gettingStarted. To get this example working with the Arduino example from the RF24 library, the following parameters need to be set in the RF24 example:
- Call radio.enableDynamicPayloads();
