NRF52840 OpenThread Support
Are there any plans to support OpenThread on the NRF52840 chip?
There are 2 different Mesh networking technologies natively built for this chip.
Both the nrf52832 and nrf52840 support Bluetooth5 Mesh but only the 840 supports thread.
Personally thread support would be my first choice and I wish I knew where to begin exposing the api to upython. I've played around with OpenThread on the nrf52840 development boards and was very impressed.
I know pycom got openthread working with micropython through a LORA network but supporting the proper radio would be awesome.
https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/nRF52840
https://openthread.io/
https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/nRF5-SDK-for-Thread
[nrf] Add board support for nRF52840 dongle (pca10059)
Please add support for the nRF52840 dongle pca10059.
Documentation here: https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/nRF52840-Dongle
I'm willing to do it, but I'm new to Micropython, so I don't have all the information I need.
Is there already an implementation that has Repl over native USB?
That would be the biggest change.
Changing the pin assignments from pca10056 shouldn't be too complicated.