Colorado-based Silicognition is getting ready to launch a crowdfunding marketing campaign for an Espressif ESP32-powered MicroPython-based “core” for 10BASE-T1S single-pair Ethernet — with a bridge accent for ease of growth.
“ManT1S offers a well-designed core for creating giant programs that profit from a distributed structure,” Silicognition’s Patrick Van Oosterwijck explains. “It leverages the ability of commercial IEEE 802.3cg 10BASE-T1S networking to simply community and distribute energy to as much as eight nodes on a T1S multi-drop mixing phase. With the dependable efficiency of the ESP32 microcontroller and the preloaded MicroPython firmware, creating code in your utility is a breeze.”
Trying to experiment with slightly single-pair Ethernet? A fan of MicroPython? The ManT1S awaits your prototyping. (📷: Silicognition)
The board is constructed round an Espressif ESP32 chip with 2MB of pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM) and 8MB of flash storage, and is able to distribution as much as 60V at 700mA (42W) of energy. There is a Qwiic connector, UFL connector for exterior Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antenna, 0.1″ breadboard-friendly pins with castellation for floor mounting, and a four-hole screw terminal for the all-important two-pair Ethernet connection — the opposite two being for daisy-chaining functions.
Not like conventional Ethernet, single-pair Ethernet, because the title implies, runs on a only a single two-wire pair. Initially developed for industrial and automotive communications, the 10BASE-T1L variant permits for wired connections to achieve effectively over a kilometer (round 0.6 miles), whereas the 10BASE-T1L model picked for the ManT1S is a shorter-range model that goals to supply competitors to the CAN XL commonplace.
An optionally available bridge board can join ManT1S boards to a daily Ethernet community, and ship Energy-over-Ethernet too. (📷: Silicognition)
Along with the ManT1S, Van Oosterwijck has additionally introduced the ManT1S-Bridge — a clear community change that connects a 10BASE-T1S single-pair Ethernet community to a multi-pair Ethernet community on an RJ45 connector, whereas additionally doubling as a Energy-over-Ethernet (PoE) adapter delivering as much as 30W of energy.
A pre-launch marketing campaign web page is offered on Crowd Provide, the place events can signal as much as be notified when the marketing campaign goes dwell; Van Oosterwijck has pledged to launch schematics for the {hardware} “after the marketing campaign closes,” and likewise to upstream the board’s MicroPython port.
