rknrfgo Reviews

Warning: There is no source. Despite the fact that SF is a place for hosting FLOSS projects, Mr King does not include the source to this project. Now that the disclaimer is out of the way, I want to emphasize just how useful and powerful RKNRFGO is. Without it nRF51 development on OSX would be a second class citizen. Instead Mr King has created a toolset that is easier to use and, in some ways, more powerful than Nordic's own tools. Even without the source Roland King deserves our thanks...

This project is immensely useful for anyone developing for the nRF51822 on Mac OS X. Indeed I'd say it's a necessity. After hacking around flashing apps and soft devices with GDB, we found this and love it. Support is excellent. I asked about support for the 7.0.0 soft device, which is organized a little differently than previous versions, and a patch was released to support it in a matter of days.

Downloaded and ran this thing under OSX Mavericks and it worked great. I had already installed JLinkExe and run a script to disable the CDC drivers. But I just couldn't figure out all the magic to download my application with a S110 Soft Device. I could do it from the PC with nRFgo Studio, but really want to develop on my Mac. Thanks so much for writing this!