My Esplora board + TFT

My Esplora board + TFT

Two in one: Arduino TRE

With the 1-GHz Texas Instruments Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 processor, Arduino developers get up to 100 times more performance with the Sitara-processor-based TRE than they do on the Arduino Leonardo or Uno. This performance opens the doors to more advanced Linux-powered applications. The Sitara-processor-based Linux Arduino can run high-performance desktop applications, processing-intensive algorithms or high-speed communications.

The Arduino TRE is two Arduinos in one: the Sitara-processor-based Linux Arduino plus a full AVR-based Arduino, while leveraging the simplicity of the Arduino software experience. The integration of the AVR Arduino enables the Arduino TRE to use the existing shield ecosystem so that innovators can expand the Arduino TRE to develop a wide range of high-performance applications such as 3D printers, gateways for building automation and lighting automation, telemetry hubs that collect data from nearby sensors wirelessly, and other connected applications that require host control plus real-time operations.

In addition, the Arduino TRE is partially the result of a close collaboration between Arduino and the BeagleBoard.org foundation. These open hardware pioneers share a passion for expanding open source development and making technology accessible for artists, designers and hobbyists. The TRE design builds upon the experience of both Arduino and BeagleBoard.org, combining the benefits of both community based boards.

The Arduino TRE is expected to be available in spring 2014.

Arduino Tre product page: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardTre

Two in one: Arduino TRE

Arduino YÚN is coming soon!

Arduino YÚN

Arduino YÚN is the first member of a new groundbreaking line of wifi products combining the power Linux with ease of use of Arduino. The first Arduino YÚN is the combination of a classic Arduino Leonardo (based on the Atmega32U4 processor) with a Wifi system-on-a-chip running Linino (a MIPS GNU/Linux based on OpenWRT). We embedded the Linux machine directly on the PCB of the Arduino Leonardo and we connected the two so that from Arduino it’s very easy to run commands on the Linux side and use it as an Ethernet and Wifi interface. Historically, interfacing Arduino with complex web services has been quite a challenge due to the limited memory available. Web services tend to use verbose text based formats like XML that require quite a lot or ram to parse. On the Arduino YÚN we have created the Bridge library which delegates all network connections and processing of HTTP transactions to the Linux machine.

New Arduino YÚN Product page at arduino.cc

LCD Demo: Arduino DUE vs Mega 2560

Arduino DUE and Mega 2560 with CTE 3.2" TFT LCD Module with Font IC Demo

Up: Arduino DUE w/TFT Shield
Down: Mega 2560 w/TFT Shield

Running the same demo code with Coldtears electronics 3.2" TFT LCD Module with font and icon IC

The first part is demo of the displaying text and icons from the module. The module is a 3.2" LCD module with fonts of 10 sizes and some commonly used icon for application development.

The second part is the famous UTFT demo by Henning Karlson. DUE runs at 84Mhz with SPI DMA, mega runs at 16Mhz, As seen due is incredibly faster when loading data from flash and drawing to the LCD

Missing component in Arduino Due

It seem that a component is missed on my new buy Arduino Due Board R3! Anybody can tell me what's it? it is necessary?

Missing component in Arduino Due

Arduino Due Board

Arduino Due Board

• AT91SAM3X8E ARM 32-bit Microcontroller @ 84MHz
• Operating Voltage: 3.3V
• 54 digital I/O pins, 12 analog inputs, 2 DAC (analog output)
• Flash Memory: 512 KB all available for the user applications
• SRAM: 96 KB (two banks: 64KB and 32KB)

The Arduino Due is the newcomer microcontroller board in the Arduino boards family. It's the first board based on a 32 bit ARM core processor, the Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 MCU, that improve all the standard Arduino functionalities and add more new features. It offer 54 digital input/output pins (of which 12 can be used as PWM outputs, with selectable resolution), 12 analog inputs with 12 bit of resolution, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), and two DAC outputs (digital to analog converter), 84 MHz crystal oscillator, two USB connections, a power jack, an ICSP header, a JTAG header, and a reset button. The maximum voltage that the I/O pins can provide or tolerate is 3.3V. Providing higher voltages, like 5V to an input pin could damage the board. The Due has two usb connectors, the one with the micro-usb AB connector is the native one capable to act as an USB host, that means you can connect compatible external usb peripherals to the board, such as mouse, keyboards, smartphones. While the other USB port with the type B connector is intended for debugging purposes. Technical Specifications Microcontroller AT91SAM3X8E Operating Voltage 3.3V Input Voltage (recommended) 7-12V Input Voltage (limits) 6-20V Digital I/O Pins 54 (of which 12 provide PWM output) Analog Input Pins 12 Analog Outputs Pins 2 (DAC) Total DC Output Current on all I/O lines 130 mA DC Current for 3.3V Pin 800 mA DC Current for 5V Pin 800 mA SRAM 96 KB (64 + 32 KB) Clock Speed 84 MHz