Using the nRF24L01 Olimex USB Dongle

Wireless & IoT
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First off, I hope you all please forgive the completely newbie questions.

Now here it goes:

I have a project where I want to test out the ability to triangulate a position based on an RF signal sent out from a Nordic Fob. Since this is a test, and I’m almost completely ignorant of what I need to do hardware wise, I am thinking the nRF24L01 Olimex USB Dongle would be my best bet. That way I wouldn’t have to try to solder any boards/components together to get the wireless signal from the nRF24L01 transceiver. I could just plug it in via a USB hub, have my PC detect it, and using some software get the signal and interpret it.

So my question(s) are:

  1. Is what I want to do even possible?

  2. If it is where do I find some kind of reference(s) for programming the dongle(s) microcontroller?

  3. If it isn’t…well then…any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.