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Writing a BLE server and client for Nordic UART Service using PolyMCU and GattLib by Olivier on 27/02/2017 15:16

Tutorial explaining how to write a Nordic BLE peripheral firmware using PolyMCU and use Gattlib on the host computer to communicate with this device. Bluetooth Nordic UART Service will be used through this tutorial.
Tags: open-source, polymcu, linux, bluetooth, gattlib, cmake, nordic

Instruction to test/use Nordic Board with PolyMCU - A call for testers & contributors! by Olivier on 14/02/2017 11:08

PolyMCU is one of our Open-Source projects. It unifies MCU Vendor SDKs into a single source tree. We recently updated it to use Nordic nRF5 SDK 11.0.0. Unfortunately, we only have the Nordic nRF52 Pre-DK to test it. It is a call for testers!
Tags: open-source, polymcu, nordic

Added RioT OS support to PolyMCU by Olivier on 11/12/2015 00:42

Story about how RioT-OS has been ported to PolyMCU. Difficulties and how they have been solved. And what are the next steps to move forward.
Tags: polymcu, riot-os, cmsis

Add a new platform to PolyMCU: Use case ST Nucleo L4 by Olivier on 19/11/2015 15:02

Cover the port of STMicroelectronics's STM32 Nucleo L4 to PolyMCU. ST support was not present in PolyMCU before this exercise... Let's see the encountered difficulties during the port and how we solved it.
Tags: polymcu

The importance of the toolchain version (in embedded space) by Olivier on 17/11/2015 12:54

Short in memory space on your tiny micro-controller, mysterious build errors, etc. Have you considered updating the toolchain you downloaded few years ago? This article demonstrates how the toolchain version can affect your firmware.
Tags: polymcu, gcc, llvm