Arduino has introduced a brand new board in its Arduino Nano vary, which goals to ship the identical form of efficiency enhance as its most up-to-date fashions within the Arduino UNO household: the Renesas RA4M1-powered Arduino Nano R4.
“Powered by the identical RA4M1 microcontroller that’s on the core of the favored UNO R4 boards,” the Arduino crew says of its newest {hardware} design, “this tiny-yet-mighty module is right here that will help you take your tasks from prototype to product, easily and effectively. For those who’re already prototyping with UNO R4, Nano R4 is your good ally to maneuver on to manufacturing with minimal changes!”
The Arduino Nano R4 is, because the title suggests, based mostly across the gumstick-style Arduino Nano footprint. The standard eight-bit microcontroller, although, is gone, in favor of a significantly extra highly effective Renesas RA4M1 with a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 core operating at 48MHz — the identical chip that powered Arduino’s comparatively current refresh of the bigger Arduino UNO household, now out there because the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi and Arduino UNO R4 Minima. The chip additionally consists of 32kB of static RAM (SRAM) and 256kB of program flash.
Different new and enhanced options embrace a real-time clock (RTC) with non-compulsory battery backup, a user-programmable RGB LED, an additional 5V I2C port appropriate with Arduino’s Modulino node add-ons, a 3.3V I2C Qwiic connector, and a contemporary USB Kind-C port for knowledge and energy. The breadboard-friendly 0.1″ pin headers are additionally castellated for set up as a surface-mount part — and for many who want extra connectivity there’s the Nano Connector Provider, which provides two Grove analog/digital, one I2C, and one UART connections, one other Qwiic I2C connection, and an SD Card reader.
The Arduino Nano R4 is now out there to order on the Arduino Retailer, priced at $12.10 with out or $13.30 with headers pre-installed; the Nano Connector Provider is a further $11.80, if required.
