Arduino and Silicon Labs Preview the New Nano Matter Board Throughout Arduino Days 2024

Through 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 present’s livestream, each firms supplied 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 type 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 Vitality, and Matter.

Because the identify implies, Matter assist 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 person intervention.

Rob Shane of Silicon Labs described Matter as a gateway expertise and the answer to “cease the protocol wars!” For instance, for those who construct an IoT gadget with the Arduino Nano Matter, your smartphone can provision and configure it to connect with a Google Nest Hub.

Tamas Jòzsi of Silicon Labs demonstrated this state of affairs throughout 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 might management the Nano Matter’s onboard LEDs! It’s impressively seamless.

Arduino Senior VP Guneet Bedi additionally burdened that whereas Matter may sound primarily centered on good house automation, it’ll probably finally broaden into industrial functions.

Being a Nano, the perimeters of the board are castellated. This characteristic permits you to join header pins or sockets or solder the board on to a PCB. There may be an onboard RGB LED, two push buttons, a chip antenna, and a USB-C connector for energy and information.

At this time’s announcement is simply a preview. Arduino did announce a $25 worth, however boards are usually not but out there. If you wish to study extra concerning the board, Arduino has a mailing checklist you’ll be able to join on the Arduino Nano Matter product web page.