NRF51 Bluefruit Firmware Source

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NRF51 Bluefruit Firmware Source

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Hello, I was wondering if the firmware source code for the NRF51822 Bluefruit modules? It's not anywhere obvious and I haven't seen any mention of source code, so I'm assuming it's not.

Is there any possibility of opening the source for people to tinker with? The present firmware doesn't really expose all of the NRF's capabilities, and there's a few improvements I'd like to see. I'm aware this is an old product and the firmware hasn't been updated in many years. I don't really expect Adafruit's engineers to spend time on a nearly obsolete device, but at the same time I don't see that there's much value in keeping the source closed.

Of course, writing my own firmware is always an option, and it's one I'm already seriously looking at. But if I can just tweak Adafruit's code to expose the features I need, it would make my life a lot easier!

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Re: NRF51 Bluefruit Firmware Source

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This is the repository for the firmware blobs (not source, just HEX files).

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Bl ... E_Firmware

This question was asked on the Nordic form and this links might be of value to you:

Open Source BLE Stack NRF51822
https://github.com/pauloborges/blessed

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Re: NRF51 Bluefruit Firmware Source

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we could not release the source code as it is intermixed with NDA files from nordic and they would not release us from the NDA (we asked many times) nRF52 isnt encumbered!

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Re: NRF51 Bluefruit Firmware Source

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Unfortunate, but understandable. Thanks for the reply!

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