The RTK Reference Station was launched yesterday, however we’ll discuss somewhat extra about it as we speak, together with two new BMI270 6DoF IMU boards!

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Hi there everybody and welcome again to a different Friday Product Publish right here at SparkFun! As we initially confirmed off yesterday, the SparkFun RTK Reference Station, our latest addition to the RTK Surveyors line, is now obtainable! Nathan stops by to offer us a bit extra data on the bottom station and what it is able to. Following that, and to not be proven up, we have now two new BMI270 Qwiic 6DoF IMUs. These boards are extraordinarily low-power and are featured in our Commonplace and Micro-sized form-factors. Now let’s dive in and take a better have a look at all of this week’s new merchandise!

An ideal level of reference!

Designed and manufactured in Boulder, Colorado, USA, the SparkFun RTK Reference Station is the right answer to your high-precision geolocation, surveying, and time reference wants. For primary customers, it’s extremely simple to arrange a hard and fast location NTRIP server, enabling RTK for rovers and whilst an NTP server for gear synchronization and an astoundingly correct time base.

Beneath the hood, the Reference Station relies on the ESP32-WROOM processor and u-blox ZED-F9P multi-band GNSS module. It runs the identical open-source firmware as our different RTK merchandise. The Reference Station has 10/100 Mbps Ethernet connectivity and it may be powered by Energy-over-Ethernet (PoE). The microSD card is related by way of a 4-bit SDIO interface, offering an order of magnitude enchancment in learn and write pace. Equally, the u-blox ZED-F9P GNSS module is related by way of a high-speed SPI interface, additionally offering an order of magnitude enchancment within the GNSS knowledge switch pace. Wish to log RAWX and SFRBX from all constellations at 20Hz? With this product, you’ll be able to! We additionally included an ATECC608A crypto co-processor if you wish to write your personal firmware and use the Reference Station for crypto mining/house climate station functions or to safe/authenticate your GNSS knowledge.

Commonplace or Micro? This 6DoF IMU has choices!

The SparkFun BMI270 6DoF IMU Breakout is a Qwiic-enabled breakout board based mostly on the ultra-low energy BMI270 from Bosch. This chip is a extremely built-in, low-power IMU optimized for wearables offering exact acceleration, angular charge measurement, and clever on-chip motion-triggered interrupt options. Not solely does the BMI270 comprise a quick and delicate accelerometer and gyro pair, but it surely additionally incorporates a number of clever, on-chip motion-triggered interrupt options.

Almost equivalent to the board above, the SparkFun BMI270 Micro 6DoF IMU Breakout is Micro-sized with a 0.3in. x 0.75in. footprint that makes this breakout board a really perfect choice to your smallest tasks utilizing our solderless Qwiic cables and appropriate controllers. On-board solder jumpers help you simply choose the machine tackle, take away the I²C pull-ups, and disable the ability LED if want be.

That is it for this week. As all the time, we won’t wait to see what you make. Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or tell us on Instagram, Fb or LinkedIn. Please be protected on the market, be form to 1 one other! We’ll be again with extra new merchandise subsequent week so be sure to verify again then. Pleased hacking!

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