In lieu of this week’s new merchandise, we’re looking again at our widespread SparkFun Artemis Product Line.
From time to time, we’re exhausting at work behind the scenes producing bigger product releases. This week is a kind of weeks! So, we’re going to take right now to have a look again on the Artemis product line. Began in 2019, Artemis was launched on the world’s first open-source, US manufactured, BLE module with FCC/IC/CE certification. We developed it to be a dependable machine studying software that was operable with the Arduino Core and put it on serveral of our extra widespread boards together with RedBoard (R3), Factor+ (Feather), and ATP (Mega/Due). In the present day, the SparkFun Artemis product traces has ballooned to a number of stand alone boards and is even featured in our rapid-prototyping MicroMod ecosystem. Let’s dive in and have a look at every of our boards!
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The module that began all of it off!
The Artemis Module from SparkFun is a Cortex-M4F with BLE 5.0 working as much as 96MHz and with as low energy as 6uA per MHz (lower than 5mW). That is the world’s first module to bridge the market between hobbyists and client merchandise. We have packaged all the facility of a contemporary microcontroller right into a module that’s each extraordinarily simple to make use of however is mass-market prepared.
The pliability of the Artemis module begins with our Arduino core. You possibly can program and use the Artemis module identical to you’d an Uno or another Arduino. Time to first blink is simply 5 minutes away! We constructed the core from the bottom up, making it quick and as mild weight as potential.
Subsequent is the module itself. Measuring 10x15mm the Artemis module has all of the help circuitry you must use the implausible Ambiq Apollo3 processor in your subsequent mission. We’re proud to say the SparkFun Artemis module is the primary open supply {hardware} module with the design recordsdata freely and simply obtainable right here. We have fastidiously designed the module in order that implementing Artemis into your design may be performed with low-cost 2-layer PCBs and 8mil hint/house.
The unique three form-factors!
Consider the RedBoard Artemis as simply one other Arduino… That has BLE. And one megabyte of flash. And runs at lower than 1mA. Oh, and it may well run TensorFlow fashions. Ya, that too. The RedBoard Artemis takes the extremely highly effective Artemis module from SparkFun and wraps it up in a simple to make use of and acquainted Uno footprint. We have written an Arduino core from scratch to make programming the Artemis as acquainted as Serial.start(9600). Time-to-first-blink is lower than 5 minutes.
The RedBoard Artemis has the improved energy conditioning and USB to serial that we have refined over time on our RedBoard line of merchandise. A contemporary USB-C connector makes programming simple. A Qwiic connector makes I2C simple. The RedBoard Artemis is totally appropriate with SparkFun’s Arduino core and may be programmed simply underneath the Arduino IDE. We have uncovered the JTAG connector for extra superior customers preferring to make use of the facility and velocity {of professional} instruments. We have added a digital MEMS microphone for people eager to experiment with always-on voice instructions with TensorFlow and machine studying. We have even added a handy jumper to measure present consumption for low energy testing.
We wish to joke the Artemis Nano is a celebration on the entrance and enterprise on the again. And that is by design! All of the necessary LEDs, connectors, labels, and buttons are offered on the entrance for one of the best consumer expertise with all of the supporting circuitry on the rear of the board. The RedBoard Artemis Nano is a minimal however extraordinarily useful implementation of the Artemis module. A lightweight weight, 0.8mm thick PCB, with on board LiPo-battery charging and a Qwiic connector, this board is simple to implement into very small tasks. A twin row of floor connections make it simple so as to add numerous buttons, LEDs, and something that requires its personal GND connection. On the similar time, the board is breadboard appropriate if you happen to solder the internal rows of pins.
The RedBoard Artemis ATP is affectionately known as ‘All of the Pins!’ at SparkFun. The Artemis module has 48 GPIO and this board breaks out completely each certainly one of them in a well-known Mega like type issue. What’s with the silkscreen labels? They’re everywhere. We determined to label the pins as they’re assigned on the Apollo3 IC itself. This makes discovering the pin with the perform you need loads simpler. Take a look on the full pin map from the Apollo3 datasheet. If you actually need to check out the 4-bit SPI performance of the Artemis you are going to have to entry pins 4, 22, 23, and 26. Must check out the differential ADC port 1? Pins 14 and 15. The RedBoard Artemis ATP will can help you flex the spectacular capabilities of the Artemis module.
In case you are on the lookout for a board that (nearly) does all of it, look no additional! The SparkFun Artemis Factor Plus takes our widespread Factor Plus footprint and provides within the highly effective Artemis module for final performance. Totally appropriate with SparkFun’s Arduino core, the fashionable USB-C connector makes it simple to program underneath the Arduino IDE however for extra superior customers preferring to make use of the facility and velocity {of professional} instruments, we have additionally uncovered the JTAG connector. To make the Factor Plus even simpler to make use of, we have moved just a few pins round to make the board Feather appropriate and it makes use of our useful Qwiic Join System which suggests no soldering or shields are required to attach it to the remainder of your system!
With a transparent view of the sky, the SparkFun Artemis World Tracker (AGT) permits you to ship and obtain brief knowledge messages. Incorporating the Artemis Module, Iridium 9603N Quick Burst Information modem, u-blox ZOE-M8Q GNSS receiver, and a TE MS8607 PHT sensor, this compact tracker permits you to do an unbelievable variety of issues that was very troublesome. Leveraging the Iridium satellite tv for pc community, it really works anyplace on the planet, together with the polar areas, far past the attain of WiFi and GSM networks.
Leveraging the extremely highly effective Artemis Module, the SparkFun MicroMod Artemis Processor is the mind board of your goals. With a Cortex-M4F with BLE 5.0 working as much as 96MHz and with as low energy as 6uA per MHz (lower than 5mW), the M.2 MicroMod connector permits you to plug in a MicroMod Provider Board with any variety of peripherals. Let’s take a look at what this processor board has to supply! Should you want Machine Studying capabilities, Bluetooth, I2C performance to hook up with all our superb Qwiic boards, and extra the Artemis Processor is the proper selection to your MicroMod Provider Board.
The SparkFun OpenLog Artemis is an open supply knowledge logger that comes preprogrammed to mechanically log IMU, GPS, serial knowledge, and numerous strain, humidity, and distance sensors. All with out writing a single line of code! OpenLog Artemis, or “OLA,” mechanically detects, configures, and logs Qwiic sensors. The OLA is particularly designed for customers who simply have to seize numerous knowledge to a CSV and get again to their bigger mission.
Resulting from some provide constraints surrounding the on-board IMU in the course of the pandemic, we additionally launched a extra economical model of the OLA with out one!
The SparkFun Artemis Improvement Equipment is the newest board to be launched across the SparkFun Artemis Module and it permits entry to extra software program growth options than earlier Artemis primarily based boards. Really helpful software program used to program the Artemis DK are the Arduino IDE, Arm® Mbed™ OS (Studio and CLI), and AmbiqSDK. An up to date USB interface (MKL26Z128VFM4 Arm® Cortex®-M0+ MCU, from NXP) permits the Artemis Dev Equipment to behave as:
- Mass Storage Gadget (MSD): Used to supply drag and drop programming to the Artemis Module.
- Human Interface Gadget (HID): Used for the debugging interface to the Artemis Module.
- Communication Port (COM): Used to supply a serial communication UART between the Artemis and the USB connection (PC).
A kitted model additionally contains the SparkFun Artemis DK board in addition to the equipment (Himax digicam & USB-C cable) wanted to get began immediately.
With the SparkFun Cryptographic Improvement Equipment you’re going to get every thing you must study the basics of cryptographic authentication and use the ATECC508A Cryptographic Co-Processor Breakout so as to add a hovering degree of safety to your tasks.
On this equipment you’re going to get a pair of our SparkFun ATECC508A Cryptographic Co-Processor Breakouts that may can help you simply add sturdy authentication safety to your IoT node, edge system, or embedded system. This board contains two Qwiic ports for plug and play performance. Using our useful Qwiic system, no soldering is required to attach it to the remainder of your system. Nevertheless, we nonetheless have damaged out 0.1″-spaced pins in case you favor to make use of a breadboard. The ATECC508A chip is able to many cryptographic processes, together with, however not restricted to:
- Creating and securely storing distinctive uneven key pairs primarily based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (FIPS186-3).
- Creating and verifying 64-byte digital signatures (from 32-bytes of message knowledge).
- Making a shared secret key on a public channel by way of Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Algorithm.
- An ordinary hash-based challenge-response protocol utilizing a SHA-256 algorithm.
- Inside top quality FIPS random quantity generator.
As you would possibly be capable of inform, the Artemis has been our go-to board for all kinds of kits that we have developed. It is a tried and true processor that may slot into most any function from the Arctic to house and can give you dependable knowledge and growth performance wherever you would possibly go!
That is it for this week. As at all times, we will not wait to see what you make! Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or tell us on Instagram, Fb or LinkedIn. Please be secure on the market, be form to at least one one other! We’ll be again with extra new merchandise subsequent week so make certain to test again then. Joyful hacking!
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