Ihsan informs us of Digitstump’s inexpensive, powerful Arduino-compatible board with WiFi – the DigiX:
Have you seen this DigiX board by Digistump? They are the ones who created the Digisparks as well. As a difference from Digispark, this time they are aiming high end region of the devboards.
Fun fact – we made the DigiX prototypes using our TM240A pick and place bought through the group buy here on Dangerous Prototypes! Thanks for the post!
I really like the idea. It bothers me that they’re using an off-the-shelf NRF24L01+ module as a daugherboard – with the antenna facing inwards! – rather than integrating it right onto the board, though.
Our newest revision moves it more towards the edge and turns the antenna – we went with the off the shelf module because we were out of board space and it allows people to switch it out for any other pin compatible module – like the higher power version. On the newest revision wifi has been moved to the edge where the USB and power connectors are – we wanted to make its placement first priority. Thanks!
Being a “sucker” for everything Arduino related I think this is very interessting.
Extremly powerfull and even the most intense user wont miss enough i/o-pins ;-)
Bo :o)
Interesting layout on that board I guess this was done by a topological router (?)
Yep – routed with TopoR and then cleaned up, and partially rerouted about half manually. It was the only way to get it on 2 layers so that anyone can make it – and our first full scale use of TopoR
Interesting. I didn’t know the NRF24L01+ module supported WiFi. Thought it was just a cheapy 2.4Ghz serial 500kbit transceiver.
There is a separate WiFi module on the board – the NRF24L01+ is just for short range communications with other devices.
Ah! I see it now. Must be going blind in my old age…
What does the TopoR application cost for two layer? The Eremex site doesn’t disclose this without harvesting your personal information :-(
about $500 – though it often goes on sale for a bit less – it isn’t cheap and we’re not sure it is worth that much, but it does enable some very hard to route boards like this one and BGAs – I’d recommend the lite version for non-commercial use, it does 125 nets I think and two layers, good to get acquainted with the flaws of it first.
I am using the DigiX version 1.0 board, and I use Arduino software 1.0.5-r2 to write the program. However when I want to upload my program, even a simple code, it come out a error “avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00”
I check for solution,some suggest that goto ,, change the board type, but I try out most the board, it still come out with the same problem, USB port is correct, may i know how can I solve this?
Thank you
StamChoe – please come to the forums: digistump.com/board and we’d be happy to help. It does sound like you dont’ have the board selected: Tools->Board->DigiX
If DigiX doesn’t appear in the list then you need to download the DigiX addons: digistump.com/wiki/digix