Platform: Nordic Semiconductor 2.4GHz
Nordic released some interesting wireless SoC's, most important is nRF51822 (BLE) and nRF51422. But, using this chip requires NDA, SDK is available only with $100 development kit.
Boards
RFduino
Successfully founded on kickstarter, RFduino released Arduino core for nRF51822 and closed source binary bootloader.
TODO: just bundle and release https://github.com/apla/RFduino
RFduino opensource clone (not functional)
https://github.com/d00616/nRF51duino
RedbearLab
nRF51822
https://github.com/RedBearLab/nRF51822-Arduino
Legacy
Installation instructions for RFDuino recommend to patch Arduino IDE folder. Please, don't do it. You can follow updated instructions and then patch platform.txt by replacing
tools.RFDLoader.path={runtime.ide.path}/hardware/arduino/RFduino
by
tools.RFDLoader.path={runtime.platform.path}
Alternative firmwares:
- https://dobots.nl/2014/03/05/rfduino-without-rfduino-code/ (programming rfduino with st-link)
- https://github.com/mrquincle/bluenet
- https://github.com/d00616/nRF51duino