Throughout the Arduino Days 2024 stay stream, Arduino CEO Fabio Violante and Chief Product Officer Marcello Majonchi previewed the Arduino Nano Matter, a brand new board within the Nano household.
A number of months in the past, Arduino introduced a partnership with Silicon Labs and teased the brand new Nano Board. Throughout right now’s livestream, each firms offered extra particulars on the Nano Matter’s options and the significance of the Matter Protocol and demonstrated a Matter-based sketch.
The Arduino Nano Matter has the identical 18 x 45 millimeter type issue as different Arduino Nano boards. The microcontroller is an MGM2405 multiprotocol wi-fi SoC from Silicon Labs containing an Arm Cortex M33 and a 2.4 GHz radio. It helps proprietary wi-fi protocols and requirements like Zigbee, Open Thread, Bluetooth Low Power, and Matter.
Because the title implies, Matter assist is the important thing focus of this new board. The Connectivity Requirements Alliance (CSA) publishes the open-source Matter protocol specification. It focuses on enabling sensible residence units (from completely different distributors) to seemingly and securely join with one another with minimal person intervention.
Rob Shane of Silicon Labs described Matter as a gateway know-how and the answer to “cease the protocol wars!” For instance, in case you construct an IoT gadget with the Arduino Nano Matter, your smartphone can provision and configure it to connect with a Google Nest Hub.
LED Coloration Altering Instance on Arduino Nano Matter (📷: Arduino, Youtube)
Tamas Jòzsi of Silicon Labs demonstrated this state of affairs in the course of the Arduino Days 2024 announcement. Jòzsi constructed a sketch within the Arduino IDE and programmed it onto the Arduino Nano Matter. Then, Jòzsi did a one-time provisioning step involving a QR code within the Google Residence App. From there, Jòzsi demonstrated that the smartphone app or the Google Nest Hub might management the Nano Matter’s onboard LEDs! It’s impressively seamless.
Arduino Senior VP Guneet Bedi additionally careworn that whereas Matter would possibly sound primarily centered on sensible residence automation, it should probably ultimately increase into industrial functions.
Being a Nano, the perimeters of the board are castellated. This characteristic helps you to join header pins or sockets or solder the board on to a PCB. There’s an onboard RGB LED, two push buttons, a chip antenna, and a USB-C connector for energy and knowledge.
Right now’s announcement is simply a preview. Arduino did announce a $25 worth, however boards usually are not but out there. If you wish to study extra concerning the board, Arduino has a mailing listing you possibly can join on the Arduino Nano Matter product web page.
