Rutronik announced the nRF52840 dongle by Nordic Semiconductor. It allows developers to immediately connect a PC to a wireless device. This further simplifies application design and product development process.
Using this cost-effective USB dongle, developers can see exactly what the wireless device is doing from the get-go on their PC desktop. After programming the internal microcontroller with the free Segger compiler, the USB stick can also be operated independently with a USB power bank
The nRF52840 dongle supports all major wireless standards including Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth Mesh, Thread, ZigBee, 802.15.4, ANT and 2.4GHz proprietary applications running on the Nordic nRF52840 Multi-Protocol System-on-Chip (SoC).
Sample applications are available in the nRF5 SDK software development kit but the nRF52840 dongle can also be programmed via the Nordic Semiconductor nRFutil utility (a Python package and command line utility that supports Device Firmware Updates and cryptographic functionality).