Ram Koppu

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8 years, 2 months ago.

BLE module for FRDM-K64F board

I need your suggestion to buy mbed supported BLE module for FRDM-K64F board please.

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Last updated: 27 Aug 2020
The Freedom-K64F is an ultra-low-cost development platform for Kinetis K64, K63, and K24 MCUs.

Thanks Greg. I ordered https://developer.mbed.org/components/X-NUCLEO-IDB04A1/

posted by Ram Koppu 05 Feb 2016

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Greg C
8 years, 2 months ago.

Hi Ram Kumar Koppu

The easiest way to extend the capabilities of your FRDM-K64F board is to consider the Seeedstudio Grove modules .
Thanks to the Grove Shield v2, an Arduino to Grove adapter, you can simply connect them to your board.

I have already posted several mbed driver example for Seeed Grove modules in the bottom of the FRDM-K64F mbed page

I found two Grove BLE modules : version 1 and dual-mode, which Seeed Arduino drivers, available in the wiki section, should be easily ported on mbed (it is just serial AT commands).

In addition, NXP just introduced a new Freedom board for the KW40z BLE SoC (ARM Cortex-M0+), named FRDM-KW40Z, which can be used as a shield on the top of the FRDM-K64F. Its driver are not available yet for mbed, but configured as a mbed Component (not a Platform), it should not be difficult to achieve the same Serial to Bluetooth communication with AT Commands...

Accepted Answer

Hi Greg,

Do you have any working mbed code example to use Grove BLE v1 module with FRDM-K64F?

posted by Ram Koppu 26 Apr 2016

Hello Ram Kumar

I don't have the Grove BLE v1 module with me to test it, but I quickly created this project which blinks an LED when board when peered by a phone, let me know if it works on your board and let me know: https://developer.mbed.org/teams/NXP/code/frdm_grove_BLE/

posted by Greg C 26 Apr 2016