DIY NRF51 Now Works on FW4/5

I have the only 2 working ones :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
thanks to @b264 for donating his never powered on betas to me, I was able to ā€œfinishā€ them and everything is working

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Firmware 6… HM10… And ack?

Well that’s news to me… Thanks… Perhaps I’ll give it another go… Or bite the bullet and just go NRF… That looks like the future!

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if sticking to ack hm10 is your only option, if you want 4/5 then nrf is your only option

and yeah I’ve been running ack on my escapes forever with hm10

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Well ack seems like a good fall-back point if everything goes crab-wise, so I believe I’ll always have a known good motor-controller that works on ack… But ack, as you know is a dead-end… If I’m to go forward like the rest of the esk8ing hominids nrf is the way, presently!

Thanks for the post buddie!

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Just go w nrf man. Hm10 is becoming obsolete, if it isn’t already. Additionally, it’s not hard to flash these nrf modules using swd. Well worth it

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Yes, it’s true. @Scepterr has what are probably 99% likely to be the only two functional B-Boxes in the world. The unicorn of unicorns.

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Dang that’s crazy, and here we thought esCapes were rare

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I have 2 more embryos incubating :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Oh boy haha

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KaramDibs

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you’ll have to pry them from my cold dead covid ridden hands

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Oh pfft. Easy peezy. What’s your address? :crazy_face: I’m more scared of my mom than this covid. Haha

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:eggplant: :eggplant: :eggplant: :sweat_drops:

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Im scared to ask - is this one of those situations where buying a MetrPro Unity… vs a a MetrPro is going to make or break the functionality.

Background: Raptors (Since removal of the Stock enertion PCB was the easist and most impactful single change that was ever done) - Im looking to use my WAND with the board.

Wand uses nrf52xxx, which act as both receiver and BT. This means you could use it w vesc tool app, assuming you have an Android.

Fair warning, some of these cheap modules are abit unstable. Add a 1uF capacitor over the ground and vcc and it usually fixes it.

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Lazy option available if you don’t want to flash and make your own connector.

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I tried this with an nrf51822 on 4.12hw, when i try connect in the SWD prog tab it says: ā€˜ā€˜Could not recognize target’’, any ideas?
~e~ over openocd it worked flawlessly so its not the module.

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Why is that?. why NOT pair NRF remotes?
I have a controller from a cheap chinese esc that went wrong and i wanna used with vesc. I should buy a nrf52xx insted for nrf51xx?
Im looking for compatibility, blu config and remote

Could you send a few screenshots or short video how to flesh nrf51822? I have bought it and I can not flesh it.:smiling_face_with_tear:

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