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Microduino-CoreRF

Microduino CoreRF is an AVR core board with 802.15.4 Wireless Protocol integrated. It supports any wireless modules based on 802.15.4 Protocol, including Zigbee, MAC/6LoWPAN and RF4CE.

Features

• Integrate 802.15.4 Wireless Protocol and support wireless modules like Zigbee, MAC/6LoWPAN and RF4CE.
• Small, open, stackable and economic.
• With open source hardware circuit design and Arduino compatible programming IDE.
• Like Arduino, Microduino can use ISP download method to burn programs into「bootloader」flexibly.
• With uniform Microduino interface standard and rich peripheral modules, it can easily connect with other Microduino modules and sensors.
• 2.54mm (0.1 inch) pin pitch, compatible with breadboards and pegboards.

Specification

Adopt ATmega128RFA1 core chip

• 22 digital I/O ports (6 of them supports ADC):
• 2-channel hard serial port:
  • UART0_RX：D0
  • UART0_TX：D1
  • UART1_RX：D2
  • UART1_TX：D3
• Support 7-channel PWM:
  • D4、D5、D6、D7、D8、D9、D10
• 6-channel external interrupt:
  • Interrupt0 (pin SCL)
  • Interrupt1 (pin SDA)
  • Interrupt2 (pin D2)
  • Interrupt3 (pin D3)
  • Interrupt4 (pin D5)
  • Interrupt5 (pin D6)
• 10 Analog I/O ports:
  • In the module, it is marked with A0,A1,A2,A3,A6,A7,D8(A8),D9(A9),D3(A10) and D4(A11).
  • Each offers 10-bit resolution(0-1024). The measurement range of the analog voltage is from GND to VCC by default.
  • For more information, please refer to analogRead().
• Support 1-channel SPI:
  • In the module, it's marked with D13(SCK),D12(MISO),D11(MOSI),D10(SS)。
• Support 1-channel IIC:
  • In the module, it is marked with SDA(D18),SCL(D19)。

• Pin Description:

Microduino-CoreRF引脚

Microduino-CoreRF元件

Document

• Eagle PCB

Schematic of CoreRF: 【CoreRF原理图】

• Main components used in Microduino CoreRF

ATmega128RFA1: http://www.atmel.com/zh/cn/devices/ATMEGA128RFA1.aspx?tab=documents

Development

• 1.For uploading programs to Microduino CoreRF, you'll need to use Microduino-USBTTL moudle.
• 2.For IDE setup and driver installation, please refer to below:
  • Microduino Getting start

• Burn Microduino BootLoader
  • If the BootLoader fails, you need to use Arduino UNO or the other Microduino board to burn bootloader for the broken Microduino.
  • Users can refer to the tutorial: How to use Arduino UNO to burn BootLoader into Microduino-Core?。

Project

Microduino-Quadcopter Tutorial

Test

Use program examples in ZigduinoRadio library to test.

void loop() 
{ 
    if (Serial.available()) 
    { 
        ZigduinoRadio.beginTransmission(); 
 
        Serial.println(); 
        Serial.print("Tx: "); 
 
        while(Serial.available()) 
        { 
            char c = Serial.read(); 
            Serial.write(c); 
            ZigduinoRadio.write(c); 
        } 
 
        Serial.println(); 
 
        ZigduinoRadio.endTransmission(); 
    } 
 
    if (ZigduinoRadio.available()) 
    { 
        Serial.println(); 
        Serial.print("Rx: "); 
 
        while(ZigduinoRadio.available()) 
            Serial.write(ZigduinoRadio.read()); 
 
        Serial.println(); 
        Serial.print("LQI: "); 
        Serial.print(ZigduinoRadio.getLqi(), 10); 
        Serial.print(", RSSI: "); 
        Serial.print(ZigduinoRadio.getLastRssi(), 10); 
        Serial.print(" dBm, ED: "); 
        Serial.print(ZigduinoRadio.getLastEd(), 10); 
        Serial.println("dBm"); 
    } 
 
    delay(100); 
} 
 
void errHandle(radio_error_t err) 
{ 
    Serial.println(); 
    Serial.print("Error: "); 
    Serial.print((uint8_t)err, 10); 
    Serial.println(); 
} 
 
void onXmitDone(radio_tx_done_t x) 
{ 
    Serial.println(); 
    Serial.print("TxDone: "); 
    Serial.print((uint8_t)x, 10); 
    Serial.println(); 
}

This example realizes wireless serial transmission function. Since the CoreRF adopts serial port download, you need firstly stack a Microduino-USBTTL on it: Choose Microduino CoreRF as the board card

Open the serial monitor after uploading programs to the two Core-RF modules, input " Hello Microduino!", click "Send" and you'll get the following result:

By here, we've completed the test.

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