The Arduino Nano Matter Web of Issues (IoT) improvement board, developed in partnership with Silicon Labs, has formally launched — following its early launch as a “neighborhood preview” earlier this yr.
“Nano Matter merges Arduino’s signature ease of use with with the highly effective Silicon Labs® MGM240S, wrapping the perfect of two worlds into one of many smallest kind elements at present available on the market,” the Arduino staff explains of its newest improvement board. “With Nano Matter, makers — in any respect ranges of experience — can leverage the favored Matter IoT connectivity commonplace to construct interactive options, improve earlier Nano-based initiatives to totally perform as good dwelling units, and even experiment with protocols like Zigbee and OpenThread.”
Arduino introduced that it had partnered with Silicon Labs to make it simpler to experiment with the Matter good dwelling connectivity commonplace again in January this yr, previewing the Arduino Nano Matter board design throughout Arduino Days 2024 a few months later. A small amount of boards had been made out there beneath a “neighborhood preview” program — and now the corporate is able to make the machine extra typically out there.
The retail model of the Arduino Nano Matter board is constructed across the SiLabs MGM240SD22VNA microcontroller, which features a single 32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 core working at as much as 78MHz and digital sign processing (DSP) and floating-point unit (FPU) acceleration. There’s 256kB of static RAM (SRAM) and a beneficiant 1,536kB of flash reminiscence, plus IEEE 802.15.4 and Bluetooth 5.3 Low Vitality (BLE) radios — the previous supporting Thread, amongst different protocols, and the latter together with Bluetooth Mesh help.
The breadboard-friendly design consists of 22 uncovered general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) pins, all of which help exterior interrupts and pulse-width modulation (PWM) output — although solely 5 PWM outputs can be utilized concurrently. 20 pins can act as inputs to a 12-bit analog to digital converter (ADC), with 4 providing digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) at 8- to 12-bit decision. Every pin can supply 40mA and sink 28mA at 3.3V, Arduino says.
The board is designed to make it straightforward to get began with constructing Matter-compatible good dwelling initiatives. (📹: Arduino)
The Arduino Nano Matter’s major promoting level, although, will not be its GPIO connectivity however its help for Matter — delivering, Arduino says, a quick-start platform for constructing a variety of Matter-compatible initiatives, from heating and air flow management to good dwelling assistants. The board additionally consists of Serial Wire Debugging over its USB Kind-C interface, with out the necessity for an exterior debugging probe, along with energy and knowledge.
The Arduino Nano Matter is now out there to order from the Arduino Retailer at $19.90; extra info may be discovered in Arduino’s product documentation, together with tutorials for constructing a wise relay, good fan, temperature sensor, and an RGB good mild — although solely the latter is on-track to obtain official Matter certification, Arduino has confirmed.
