What's the MATRIX Creator?
MATRIX Creator is a fully-featured development board, including sensors, wireless communications, and an FPGA. MATRIX Creator was built with a mission to give every student, researcher, maker, tinkerer, and developer around the world a complete, affordable, and user-friendly tool for simple to complex Internet of Things (IoT) app creation.
“MATRIX Creators enable both undergrad and graduate students from various technical backgrounds to quickly prototype complex systems.”
- Dr. Christopher Le Dantec, Professor in the School of Media, Literature and Communication
Capabilities
MATRIX Creator Sensors
Cortex-M3
Microphone
zigbee
Z-wave
NFC
LED Array
Environmental
3D Gyroscope
Components
| Microcontroller | Atmel Cortex-M3 ATSAM3S2 |
|---|---|
| FPGA | Xilinx Spartan 6 XC6SLX4 |
| Microphone Array | 8 MEMS MP34DB02 audio sensor digital microphones |
| IMU | ST LSM9DS1 3D accelerometer, 3D gyroscope, 3d magnetometer |
| Temperature / Humidity | ST HTS221 capacitive digital sensor for relative humidity and temperature |
| Altitude Sensor | NXP MPL3115A2 precision pressure sensor with altimetry |
| zigbee | Silicon Labs EM358X - 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 |
| Z-Wave | Sigma Designs ZM5202 - 868/908/921 MHz |
| IR Reciever | Vishay TSOP573 - carrier 38.0 kHz |
| IR Blaster | 2 Vishay LEDs (front and bottom), 930nm, 100mA, 120° viewing angle |
| Ultraviolet Sensor | Vishay VEML6070 UV light sensor |
| NFC | NXP PN512 NFC reader |
| Everloop | 35 RGBW LEDS |
Compatibility
| Hardware |
|---|
| Raspberry Pi B+ or newer |
| Raspberry Pi Zero |
| Software |
|---|
| Raspbian |
| Debian |
NFC
Secure interactivity via mobile devices or physically embedded tags.
Sensors
React to real-time information about temperature, pressure, UV, motion and orientation.
Spartan-6 FPGA
Reconfigurable computing power for machine learning, cryptography, isolated memory or soft cpus. Performance can be customized and improved over time by your own FPGA customization or by downloading our updates.
Zigbee
Communicate with a wide array of wireless devices in your home and business.
Z-Wave
Control over 2100 Z-Wave smart home devices.
Mic. Array
Drive sound-based behaviors with beamforming and echo cancellation from 8 microphones.
"One of the more promising pieces of hardware..."
"MATRIX is Building an Internet of Things That Actually Works."
"Create almost anything with MATRIX Creator."