Hello Dennis: I have not tried this myself but a colleague pointed me at this: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/getting-started-with-openocd-using-ft2232h-adapter-for-swd-debugging/
So you could use mynewt and openocd to download something to the adafruit feather board without needing J-Link. Will > On Apr 14, 2017, at 2:22 PM, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Pretty soon I will be presenting a talk [1] about ASF projects that can be > used as a foundation for a combined IoT + Fast Data solution. MyNewt was > chosen to be a platform for the IoT side and now the goal is to prepare a > demo for the conference with a real hardware harnessed by MyNewt and a > multi-node Apache Ignite [2] cluster running on a cloud. > > For MyNewt part I want to pick up a BLE empowered board such that the data > can be transferred over BLE to my Mac OS laptop that will send it to the > cloud, in particular, this is the one I’m thinking of [3] (Adafruit Feather > nRF52 Bluefruit LE - nRF52832). > > However, I’m not sure if the Mac OS laptop can discover that particular board > [3] and load a built target there. Have anyone tried this before? Are > appliances like J-Link the must for my dev environment or optional? > > [1] https://apachecon2017.sched.com/event/9zot > <https://apachecon2017.sched.com/event/9zot> > [2] https://ignite.apache.org > [3] > https://www.amazon.com/Adafruit-Feather-nRF52-Bluefruit-nRF52832/dp/B06XXSVYLC > > <https://www.amazon.com/Adafruit-Feather-nRF52-Bluefruit-nRF52832/dp/B06XXSVYLC> > > — > Denis
