Throughout the Arduino Days 2024 dwell 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 at the moment’s livestream, each corporations 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 kind 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 help 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 good house units (from completely different distributors) to seemingly and securely join with one another with minimal consumer intervention.
Rob Shane of Silicon Labs described Matter as a gateway expertise 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 hook up with a Google Nest Hub.
LED Shade Altering Instance on Arduino Nano Matter (📷: Arduino, Youtube)
Tamas Jòzsi of Silicon Labs demonstrated this state of affairs through 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 may management the Nano Matter’s onboard LEDs! It’s impressively seamless.
Arduino Senior VP Guneet Bedi additionally harassed that whereas Matter would possibly sound primarily targeted on good house automation, it can seemingly finally develop into industrial purposes.
Being a Nano, the sides of the board are castellated. This function enables 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.
At present’s announcement is barely a preview. Arduino did announce a $25 value, however boards will not be 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.