I-SYST Targets Code Free Bluetooth Education and the Internet of Things with the BlueIO832-Mini - Hackster.io

Canadian Internet of Things (IoT) specializer I-SYST is preparing to motorboat a compact code-free Bluetooth communications improvement module based connected the Nordic nRF52832 system-on-chip (SOC): the BlueIO832-Mini.

"BlueIO832-Mini and the escaped BlueIOWizard mobile app are an educational, unfastened root Bluetooth kit, and the bosom of the I-SYST BlueIO ecosystem," the institution explains of the impending launch. "It lets you power and easy larn astir your microcontrollers & electronics without needing to constitute analyzable firmware. Experiment with caller sensors oregon different devices without penning immoderate code, and spell from impervious of conception to merchandise plan successful grounds time."

The bosom of the BlueIO832-Mini is Nordic's nRF52832, a spot that gives the instrumentality a 64MHz Arm Cortex-M4F processor core, betwixt 32kB and 64kB of static RAM (SRAM), and 256kB to 512kB of flash memory, on with a vigor susceptible of Bluetooth 5.3 with Bluetooth Mesh enactment and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mode.

The SOC is mounted connected a compact six-pin breadboard-friendly module, the precise functionality of which is configured successful the board's companion app: each six tin beryllium utilized arsenic general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins with configurable pull-up/down resistors and pin sensing; there's a azygous UART configurable to 1M baud; an I2C autobus operating astatine up to 400kbps; and an SPI autobus moving up to 8Mbps. There's besides an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configurable to 8, 10, oregon 12-bit solution with 1 differential-mode and 2 autarkic channels, and an on-board RGB LED. The committee adjacent includes enactment for Near-Field Communication (NFC) — providing, that is, you get and connect an optional antenna.

It's the BlueIOWizard companion app, which is designed to marque the committee basal retired from the competition, however. "This versatile Internet-of-Thing (IoT) model enables users, from their mobile instrumentality (such arsenic a smartphone), to remotely pass with an electronics instrumentality done an casual plug-and-play interface," I-SYST claims. "Simply link a sensor to BlueIO, prime the sensor connected the app and fto them talk. After connecting to the people instrumentality via a desired serial interface, BlueIO832-Mini streams the information connected that carnal interface to the BlueIO mobile app implicit Bluetooth 5."

The BlueIO832-Mini isn't I-SYST's archetypal crowdfunding communications module: backmost successful November 2018 the institution closed a palmy backing run for the BLYST Nano, an ultra-tiny surface-mount module featuring an Arm Cortex-M4F processor, Bluetooth 5.0 with Bluetooth Mesh, and 30 GPIO pins; successful July 2020 backing finished for its successor, the BLYST840, with Bluetooth 5.2, Thread, and Zigbee enactment positive a boost to 46 GPIO pins.

As with its erstwhile designs, I-SYST is readying to crowdfund accumulation of the BlueIO832-Mini via Crowd Supply, astatine an as-yet unannounced terms point; schematics for the committee are disposable arsenic a PDF via Google Drive nether an unspecified unfastened root license; root codification for the bundle room diving the task is disposable on GitHub nether the permissive MIT license.