MGC3130 3D tracking and gesture controller.
Honeywell HIH temperature and humidity sensor.BME680 temperature, humidity, pressure and gas sensor.
There’s also LoRa and NB-IoT wireless connectivity and it supports Ethernet, USB-A, audio jacks, microSD, mini-PCIe, FD-CAN and Serial RS232/422/485. And they say that, due its modular container architecture, it’s capable of running device-independent software. OS and application OTA updates can be done via its Wi-Fi/Bluetooth LE connectivity. Nine cores they say? There’s an NXP i.MX 8M Mini Cortex-A53 quad-core (1.8GHz per core) and 1x Cortex-M4 (400MHz) for the Linux side of things and an STMicroelectronics STM32H747 dual-core Cortex-M7 up (480Mhz) and M4 32-bit Arm MCU (240Mhz) for the Arduino real-time control. For this reason, we decided to partner with Foundries.io to simplify this approach by providing a ready-to-use solution, by embedding a FoundriesFactory in the Arduino platform.” “This requires expertise, commitment and attention to every detail related to security and maintenance. “Today, you cannot think about a Linux-based device without anticipating the challenges of securing and maintaining it over time,” said Arduino CEO Fabio Violante.
Priced at €199, the system was created by Arduino working together with UK-based Foundries.io, in similar fashion to other partnerships – it made the recent Nicla Vision with with ST Microelectronics and the Portenta Cat M1/NB IoT GNSS Shield with Thales.īasically, Arduino describes the X8 as an industrial-grade System On Module (SOM) that offers the best of two approaches: flexibility of usage of Linux for the heavy lifting of high-performance duties and other processors to run Arduino code for real-time tasks. For example, building automation tasks or interactive smart kiosks… It’s aimed at Industry 4.0, smart city and smart agriculture applications.