The board looks cool, I love the form factor. I also love the fact that it has 
an onboard SWD connector :-). Wish it would have some onboard sensors as well. 

It calls for a celebration, first board with the Mynewt boot loader by default.

Cheers!
Vipul Rahane


> On Aug 15, 2017, at 3:10 PM, Pierre Kircher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> thats where it stops the edu version of j-link is not suiteable if you want 
> to build a commercial product .. for home tinkerers ofc .. there are other 
> jtag programmers .. like black magic probe ( opensource jtag debug / 
> programming probe)  / st link v2 suitable doing that
> 
> there is a bug in gdb for makeing it work easily with say a flashed stlink v2 
> with bmp firmware .. but you can still write them as single image ..
> 
> that would be a cheap production option …
> 
> 
>> On 15 Aug 2017, at 23:04, Kevin Townsend <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> It doesn't have an on-board J-Link, but that's why it's relatively 
>> inexpensive, and you can purchase $20 J-Link EDUs now if you qualify for 
>> those license terms: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3571
>> 
>> The more expensive options out there have a J-Link on board (nRF52DK board 
>> from Nordic), but I think having an inexpensive board and ONE J-Link plus on 
>> board LIPO battery charging makes more sense for multiple devices, and the 
>> physical size is more useful in the real world, along with easy access to a 
>> number of add-on HW: https://www.adafruit.com/Feather
>> 
>> But sorry, I **REALLY** don't want to promote the Adafruit board on the dev 
>> list! I just wanted to give a simple heads up that after a lot of delay, 
>> it's finally in production, and we'll release the iOS app (and source code) 
>> shortly, which is potentially useful to other people on this dev list.
>> 
>> Our main ambition is getting this in the shop was just to help out on a 
>> project we believe solves some real problems elegantly (fully open source 
>> BLE stack, etc.), and offers people a stepping stone towards a commercial 
>> friendly open source development platform.
>> 
>> Kevin
>> 
>> 
>> On 15/08/17 23:55, Brian Giori wrote:
>>> Wow! This really has everything, and for $28 it's a steal. I'll be picking
>>> one up when they go on sale. Great job!
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Kevin Townsend <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
> 

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