The RTK Reference Station was launched yesterday, however we’ll speak a bit extra about it at the moment, together with two new BMI270 6DoF IMU boards!
Hi there everybody and welcome again to a different Friday Product Put up right here at SparkFun! As we initially confirmed off yesterday, the SparkFun RTK Reference Station, our latest addition to the RTK Surveyors line, is now obtainable! Nathan stops by to provide us a bit extra info on the bottom station and what it is able to. Following that, and to not be proven up, we now have two new BMI270 Qwiic 6DoF IMUs. These boards are extraordinarily low-power and are featured in our Normal and Micro-sized form-factors. Now let’s dive in and take a more in-depth take a look at all of this week’s new merchandise!
An amazing level of reference!
Designed and manufactured in Boulder, Colorado, USA, the SparkFun RTK Reference Station is the proper answer to your high-precision geolocation, surveying, and time reference wants. For fundamental customers, it’s extremely simple to arrange a set location NTRIP server, enabling RTK for rovers and whilst an NTP server for gear synchronization and an astoundingly correct time base.
Underneath the hood, the Reference Station relies on the ESP32-WROOM processor and u-blox ZED-F9P multi-band GNSS module. It runs the identical open-source firmware as our different RTK merchandise. The Reference Station has 10/100 Mbps Ethernet connectivity and it may be powered by Energy-over-Ethernet (PoE). The microSD card is related by way of a 4-bit SDIO interface, offering an order of magnitude enchancment in learn and write velocity. Equally, the u-blox ZED-F9P GNSS module is related by way of a high-speed SPI interface, additionally offering an order of magnitude enchancment within the GNSS information switch velocity. Wish to log RAWX and SFRBX from all constellations at 20Hz? With this product, you possibly can! We additionally included an ATECC608A crypto co-processor if you wish to write your individual firmware and use the Reference Station for crypto mining/area climate station purposes or to safe/authenticate your GNSS information.
Normal or Micro? This 6DoF IMU has choices!
The SparkFun BMI270 6DoF IMU Breakout is a Qwiic-enabled breakout board primarily based on the ultra-low energy BMI270 from Bosch. This chip is a extremely built-in, low-power IMU optimized for wearables offering exact acceleration, angular fee measurement, and clever on-chip motion-triggered interrupt options. Not solely does the BMI270 comprise a quick and delicate accelerometer and gyro pair, however it additionally incorporates a number of clever, on-chip motion-triggered interrupt options.
Practically similar to the board above, the SparkFun BMI270 Micro 6DoF IMU Breakout is Micro-sized with a 0.3in. x 0.75in. footprint that makes this breakout board a great possibility to your smallest tasks utilizing our solderless Qwiic cables and appropriate controllers. On-board solder jumpers assist you to simply choose the system tackle, take away the I²C pull-ups, and disable the facility LED if want be.
That is it for this week. As at all times, we won’t wait to see what you make. Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or tell us on Instagram, Fb or LinkedIn. Please be secure on the market, be variety to at least one one other! We’ll be again with extra new merchandise subsequent week so make certain to examine again then. Completely satisfied hacking!
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