Today during Opening Conference at Maker Faire Rome, Josh Walden Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation and Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino, announced the upcoming release of Arduino 101 (U.S.) and Genuino 101 (outside the U.S.).
A learning and development board that delivers the performance and low-power consumption of the Intel Curie Module with the simplicity of Arduino at an entry-level price. It keeps the same robust form factor and peripheral list of the UNO with the addition of onboard Bluetooth LE capabilities and a 6-axis accelerometer/gyro to help you easily expand your creativity into the connected world. The module contains two tiny cores, an x86 (Quark) and an ARC, both clocked at 32 Mhz. The Quark core runs ViperOS RTOS and helps the Arduino core to accomplish the most demanding tasks. It comes with 14 digital input/output pins (of which 4 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a USB connector for serial communication and sketch upload, a power jack, an ICSP header with SPI signals and I2C dedicated pins. The board operating voltage and I/O is 3.3 V but all pins are protected against 5V overvoltage.We collaborated with Intel to provide the maker community an affordable learning and development board ideal for entry-level makers and education environments and also the first widely available development board based on the tiny, low-power Intel Curie module.
Technical specs
| Microcontroller | Intel Curie |
|
Operating Voltage |
3.3 V (5 V tolerant I/O) |
| Input Voltage (recommended) | 7-12 V |
| Input Voltage (limit) | 6-20 V |
| Digital I/O Pins | 14 (of which 4 provide PWM output) |
| PWM Digital I/O Pins | 4 |
| Analog Input Pins | 6 |
| DC Current per I/O Pin | 4 mA |
| Flash Memory | 196 kB |
| SRAM |
24 kB |
| Clock Speed | 32 MHz |
| Features | Bluetooth LE, 6-axis accelerometer/gyro |
| Length | 68.6 mm |
| Width | 53.4 mm |
Arduino 101 will be available in the first quarter of 2016 for a suggested retail price of US$30 (approximately 27 euros). The Intel-manufactured board will be sold under the Arduino 101 brand in the United States and under the Genuino 101 brand outside the United States. It will be also available through catalog distributors and retailers selling other Intel maker and innovator products such as Amazon, Conrad Electronic, Farnell Element 14, Microcenter, Mouser, Radio Shack, RS Components and SparkFun.
