Throughout the Arduino Days 2024 stay 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 in the present day’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 title 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 sensible residence gadgets (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 know-how and the answer to “cease the protocol wars!” For instance, when 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.

Tamas Jòzsi of Silicon Labs demonstrated this situation 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 House 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 pressured that whereas Matter may sound primarily targeted on sensible residence automation, it is going to possible ultimately increase 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.

As we speak’s announcement is just a preview. Arduino did announce a $25 worth, however boards are usually not but accessible. If you wish to study extra concerning the board, Arduino has a mailing record you’ll be able to join on the Arduino Nano Matter product web page.