Bitcraze Crazyradio dongle

Source code and tools for the Bitcraze Crazyradio USB dongle.

See Bitcraze Documentation for more information about Crazyradio and the USB protocol used.

Folders content:

• firmware: The firmware source code
• nrfProg: SPI programmer that uses jtagkey USB adapter
• usbtools: Python scripts to reset and bootload Crazyradio from command line
• lib: Software libraries to use Crazyradio with Python
• fix_bootloader: Script to revive a Crazyradio

Building the firmware

Requirement:

• SDCC
• Binutils (needs objcopy)

On Ubuntu this can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install sdcc binutils

On Mac (using homebrew):

brew install sdcc
brew install binutils
ln -s /usr/local/opt/binutils/bin/gobjcopy /usr/local/bin/objcopy

To build the firmware you should navigate to the firmware directory.

Build for Crazyradio

make CRPA=0

Build for Crazyradio PA

make CRPA=1

Flashing the Firmware

To flash the firmware run the following from the firmware directory:

python ../usbtools/launchBootloader.py
sudo python ../usbtools/nrfbootload.py flash bin/cradio.bin

After flashing successfully, you need to replug the Crazyradio. More details are in the wiki.

Check your firmware version

Run the following command:

lsusb -d 1915:7777 -v | grep bcdDevice

Contribute

Go to the contribute page on our website to learn more.

Test code for contribution

Run the automated build locally to test your code

./tools/build/build