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How about this one: https://wiki.makerdiary.com/nrf52840-connectkit/introduction...

Discussed here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36475144

On further examination, the one thing it doesn't discuss is Wi-Fi, although it has 2.4gHz. Well, I'll leave this here in case you find it interesting.



Nordic is certainly heading this direction. They have a WiFi 6 companion chip already, and are presumably going to make a single package solution at some point: https://www.nordicsemi.com/-/media/Software-and-other-downlo...


Nordic products are generally excellent. But for wifi they acquired a company and my understanding is they basically slapped their name on and wrapped their sdk around a non-nordic solution.


Check out Espressif P4 and C5. Feel like those two upcoming pair of chips is going to compete with Nordics first WiFi offering.

Will be interesting to see how low Nordics price point will go with their single package solution!


nRF5x family had been the gold standard for Bluetooth Low Energy gadgets like coin cell powered smartwatches, to the point that both Apple AirTag and its predecessor Tile tracker uses nRF52. But they never had Wi-Fi. Just way too much power consumption for nRF5x.


NRF52 line is Bluetooth LE not WiFi.




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