Makers and developers interested in creating Internet of Things devices and projects might be interested in a new user interface creation solution that has been designed by Gamolina based in Seattle.
The NextDev provides a development board and easy to use colour LCD touch screen mini PC that is equipped with wireless connectivity and provides a variety of features for Internet of Things applications. Watch the video below to learn more.
Features/Specifications include :
- All module pins broken out
- On-board 1.2A, 3.3V LDO regulator capable of powering external devices.
- Powered by 5V USB or .1″ header
- Current ~210 mA (nominal with WiFi and display active).
- Low power mode available (display can be put into sleep mode as well)
- 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi Direct (P2P), soft-AP
- Integrated TCP/IP protocol stack
- Integrated low power 32-bit CPU application processor (80 Mhz over clockable to 160 Mhz)
- +19.5dBm output power in 802.11b mode (~800 ft range!)
- 12 available GPIO lines
- SPI, I2C, TTL serial interfaces
- Rich set of APIs
- Embedded LUA scripting language interpreter
- 4 mb flash filesystem
- 80 kb RAM
- Support for a wide array of sensors and actuators
Nextion TFT touch screen display – The NextDev board “piggybacks” onto the Nextion with .25″ aluminum standoffs (or both boards can be detached and mounted separately). Nextion display offloads all graphics processing, either 4mb or 16mb flash (depending upon display choice), micro SD for loading display flash.
Jump over to the Kickstarter website for more details and to make a pledge to help the NextDev go into production with pledges starting from just $44.
Source: Kickstarter