Arduino has introduced its first add-on board devoted to the brand new GIGA R1 WiFi growth board, including a touchscreen show, microphone, inertial measurement unit (IMU), digital camera connector, and RGB LED to the board: the GIGA Show Protect.
“A number of months in the past, we promised you that the GIGA R1 WiFi would help you ‘suppose greater and be extra inventive than ever,'” the Arduino crew writes by the use of background to the brand new launch. “Now, we’re completely happy to announce you may step up your recreation even additional, with the introduction of the Arduino GIGA Show Protect — an revolutionary touchscreen answer enabling all makers to effortlessly deploy quick and extremely responsive graphic interfaces to their GIGA R1 WiFi mission.”
Arduino launched the GIGA R1 WiFi again in March, promising a extra highly effective gadget within the acquainted Mega and Due type issue. Based mostly on an STMicro STM32H747XI uneven dual-core microcontroller, with one Arm Cortex-M7 core working at as much as 480MHz and one Cortex-M4 core at as much as 240MHz, the corporate positioned the board as being ultimate for a variety of highly-responsive workloads — and the GIGA Show Protect is designed to function proof of precisely that.
The add-on board is constructed round a full-color 3.97″ 800×480 touchscreen show able to monitoring 5 contact factors and gestures. Behind this are the on-board sensors: a Bosch Sensortec six-axis BMI270 inertial measurement unit (IMU) and an STMicroelectronics MP34DT06JTR MEMS digital microphone. Elsewhere on the board is a connector for an non-obligatory digital camera, suitable with Arducam picture sensor boards — although no digital camera is included as normal.
The board is explicitly designed to be used with the Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi. (📷: Arduino)
“With the GIGA Show Protect, you may rapidly add a cool UI [User Interface] to your {hardware} tasks with out further wiring, have graphics modify routinely in line with gadget orientation or audio instructions, or leverage pc imaginative and prescient as your answer’s enter,” the Arduino crew claims.
“If that’s not sufficient, GIGA R1 WiFi’s new set of top-facing connectors go away the highest header out there for growth, attaching different shields to spice up your prospects much more.”
The GIGA Show Protect is now out there to order from the Arduino retailer, priced at $63.60; an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi, for individuals who don’t but have one, is a further $72.82.