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 maker, tinkerer, and developer around the world a complete, affordable, and user-friendly tool for simple to complex Internet of Things (IoT) app creation.
"From a hardware perspective, it's an absolute bombshell"
Capabilities
MATRIX Creator Sensors
Cortex-M3
Microphone
zigbee
Z-wave
NFC
LED Array
Environmental
3D Gyroscope
Components
| Microcontroller | Amtel 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 |
| UP board |
| Software |
|---|
| Raspbian |
| Debian |
| Android Things |
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.
Sensors
React to real-time information about temperature, pressure, UV, motion and orientation.
NFC
Secure interactivity via mobile devices or physically embedded tags.
Z-Wave
Control over 2100 Z-Wave smart home devices.
zigbee
Communicate with a wide array of wireless devices in your home and business.
Mic. Array
Drive sound-based behaviors with beamforming and echo cancellation from 8 microphones.