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WHER IS THE FIRM WARE OF TEST PROGRAM THEIR IS ONLY THE HEX FILE?
Out of box You can test your BLE Nano kit following the steps below: 1. Mount your BLE Nano onto the MK20 USB dongle correctly. 2. Connect the MK20 USB dongle to your host PC. The PC will prompt that a new disk named "MBED". 3. Open the MBED disk. Drag and drop the below firmware to the disk:
nrf51822_blinky_nrf51822_.hex
4. You will see the LED on the BLE Nano starts blinking.
Note: If you are using OSX 10.10.x (Yosemite), it has a bug with the OS, please use this method to load firmware: https://developer.mbed.org/users/okano/notebook/mbed-on-yosemite/?c=14179
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but when I click the link no hex file is downloaded, infact it shows the binary program
posted by jayendra mishra 18 Jul 2015When you left-click on the link of the hex file it will open and show as intel hex file format in your browser. You should instead click&hold and then drag the link and drop it onto the drive that shows up for the BLE nano.
You can also right-click on the hex file and save it on the mbed drive or first on your local machine and then drag and drop it to the BLE drive.
posted by Wim Huiskamp 20 Jul 2015but when I do it it shows fail on my ble nano drive
posted by jayendra mishra 20 Jul 2015it says bad extention file
posted by jayendra mishra 20 Jul 2015