Bulgarian open-hardware specialist Olimex has introduced a brand new add-on for any of its boards that characteristic a UEXT growth connector: a dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Power (BLE), and Thread/Matter-compatible IEEE 802.15.4 module, powered by Espressif’s ESP32-C5.
“MOD-ESP32-C5 is compact 40×20mm (round 1.57×0.79″) improvement board which might be plugged to any improvement board with UEXT connector,” Olimex founder Tsvetan Usunov explains of the brand new module, “and [which] provides twin band 2.4/5GHz Wi-Fi 6 connectivity through Espressif ESP-HOSTED SDK.”
Received a UEXT growth header doing nothing? Why not add Wi-Fi 6, BLE, and Thread help to your challenge? (📷: Olimex)
Whereas Usunov could also be specializing in the dual-band Wi-Fi connectivity, that is not the one trick up the brand new module’s sleeve. At its coronary heart is the Espressif ESP32-C5, a microcontroller module that gives three radios in whole: the dual-band Wi-Fi 6 radio, a Bluetooth 5 Low Power (BLE) radio, and an IEEE 802.15.4 appropriate with Thread and the brand new Matter customary, all below the management of a 32-bit RISC-V core operating at as much as 240MHz and used on this case as a devoted community processor with 8MB of SPI flash and 4MB of pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM) on-board.
The module is designed for solderless growth of any of Olimex’s varied single-board computer systems and microcontroller improvement boards that includes the in-house UEXT growth connector — simply plug the module onto the header and add the mandatory code to drive it.
The MOD-ESP32-C5 module is now obtainable on the Olimex retailer at €5.95 (round $7) earlier than quantity reductions; as with all Olimex {hardware}, its design recordsdata can be found on GitHub below the strongly reciprocal variant of the CERN Open {Hardware} License Model 2 with software program obtainable below the permissive MIT license.
