Developing for Nordic, LooUQ’s Journey
LooUQ has been designing, building and developing IoT since 2016. But the paradigm is shifting with our adoption of Nordic Semiconductor.
Every journey starts somewhere; this one starts here. LooUQ has been developing firmware and embedded hardware since 2016. We do build our integration cloud, LQcloud, and some consulting too. But this is a story about how we became a follower of Nordic Semiconductor and melded it into our world. Even after developing for Microchip, NXP, ST, and Espressif, I have found that Nordic has some twists that one needs to follow closely. The goal of this series is to publish quick, concise articles about something learnt the hard way; hoping our challenge solved can help one of you.
Each of the follow-on posts will cover one, maybe two topics, that require more digging than one would hope and now it is internal knowledge for our team. The goal of this post series… make theses topics external knowledge that is useful to your team.
Throughout the series most topics came from our development around the nRF91 series, mostly the nrf9151, the examples will use either the nRF9151 DK or our MTC2-N9151 modem and Breakout shown here. The Nordic tools are extensions installed into VS Code.
First off, go do some things to make this all work out…
Get a Nordic DK board of your desired flavor, they are readily available and reasonably priced.
Go to the Nordic Developer Academy and start learning.
Invest in a Segger J-Link, you can get new ones from DigiKey, Mouser, or other distributors. Check out eBay for a used one, I got one on there for a great price that has been working here for 5 years.
If you have time, funds and interest; please consider purchasing the LooUQ N9151 cellular modem.