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V4 tested and a note on Adafruit nRF52 Arduino Board Lib Ver

A project log for Wireless BLE Kinesis Advantage (Custom Controller)

Replaces the stock controller with an nRF52 BLE SOC and MCP23S17 io expander. BLE Kinesis with great (few months) battery life.

mike-wMike W 05/11/2019 at 16:310 Comments

Finally got around to actually building a V4 Board and it works. *master* branch requires no modifications.

If you're building this board, note that you need the following:

- nRF52 Feather Express (nRF52832 *not nrf52840*)

- Install *version 0..8.6* of Adafruit nRF52 board lib for Arduino. Any later version contains API changes and a different bootloader version. So your best bet is 0.8.6.

*Reason for building a V4*

My previous V3 board worked flawlessly for 6 months and then decided to randomly start getting stuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk keys. It was infrequent in the beginning, maybe once every 2 days but eventually turned into once every 2-3 hours. That's just  unacceptable. I would clean the PCB and that works for a while but it comes back after a few days.

To make sure it isn't firmware related I decided to build a fresh board.

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