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Have been trying out Nordic’s Thingy: 91 X https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-hardware/Nordic-Thingy-91-X for a project as well as the Blues Cell+WiFi starter kit for another project: https://shop.blues.com/products/blues-global-starter-kit – anyone work with either of these devices?
Nordic’s device is very easy to get started with for their built-in demo, and very capable with a number of onboard sensors. Beyond that there is some significant yak shaving involved.
There’s some shaving involved with the Blues device as well (and it doesn’t have the same array of onboard sensors). However, being familiar with Arduino programming, but not some of the more complicated build stuff with hardware, I’ve found the Blues device to be a bit easier to work with.
That being said, I’ve gone further with the Nordic device, and I used the Blues device after I’d started with the Thingy: 91 X, so it’s not quite an apples-to-apples comparison. Anyone used either of these? Thoughts?
It comes with two SIM cards to try out. I’ve been using one and have yet to reach its data limit, but all things considered I haven’t used it that much. I’ve honestly had some difficulties getting it set up with custom programs and even examples from their Dev Academy using VS Code. However, I’m better with hardware than setting up IDEs properly, so people that are more versed in different toolchains, SDKs, etc, may have an easier go of it.
There is a lot of hardware onboard for people to try out, so it may be more of a tool for people who are good with the software/firmware side of things rather than those that are better with hardware. But that is just my gut feeling at this point.
Cool thanks for the information. Honestly, I have so many things Iβd love to try out but I never make time for it.
Ha, isn’t that the truth!
Iβve never used them. They seem like they have good documentation for set up but Iβm not sure how it is with making a custom program.
I too am interested to learn more. Basically, commenting to keep this part of the thread alive. Iβd be interested to try it. My thoughts are that it seems like a relatively high price tag for something that doesnβt seem to have that much throughput capacity (correct me if Iβm wrong on this).
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