Good progress with blinky — that confirms the toolchain, board, and bootloader path all work end-to-end.
The reason you only see 8 projects on v1.3.x is that those are the only samples that existed at that point in nfed history. at_client and mfw_update were added later:
at_client first appears on the v1.5.x branchmfw_update first appears on the v1.7.x branch
So they’re genuinely not in your checkout — the picker isn’t broken, there’s just nothing to pick.
You have a couple of options:
For at_client — it’s a Nordic-stock sample, so you don’t need it from nfed. It lives in the NCS tree itself at:
~/ncs/v1.3.0/nrf/samples/nrf9160/at_client
In Zephyr Tools, when prompted for a project, hit Browse… and point it at that directory directly. It builds against circuitdojo_feather_nrf9160 / circuitdojo_feather_nrf9160_ns the same way the nfed samples do.
For mfw_update — this one is a Circuit Dojo sample, and it didn’t exist on v1.3.x. You can copy the directory from a later branch into your current checkout:
git fetch origin v1.7.x
git checkout origin/v1.7.x -- samples/mfw_update
That puts the samples/mfw_update/ folder into your working tree without changing the rest of your v1.3.x checkout. The Zephyr Tools project picker should pick it up on the next build prompt.
This may or may not work depending on the API changes from 1.3.x to 1.7.x. If things go wrong beyond here you’re on your own.
