Uploaded July 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Dear friends welcome to another Arduino Tutorial! Today we are going to take a first look at the impressive Arduino 101 board. đŽ My Android Game: bit.ly/QuizOfKnowledge
The board offers some amazing features like a dual core processor and a Hardware Neural Network for Artificial Intelligence applications. Without any further delay, let's get started!
Today I am very excited because we are going to play with this new board the Arduino 101. This board was announced two years ago, and it was released last year, but I just received one. It was designed to be the successor of the Arduino Uno. At first I was not impressed by the specs of the board and I hesitated to order one. But when a company like Intel enters the maker community their offering must be unique. So I decided to try it, mostly interested in its Bluetooth connectivity. Only when the board arrived I discovered that inside the Intel Curie chip there is also a Hardware Neural Network that we can use in our projects! Yes, that's right! We can develop Artificial Intelligence programs with this board! I really don't know why Intel or Arduino do not advertise this feature at all. The board costs around 30$ and Gearbest.com website was kind enough to send me a sample board to test it.
At first let's take a look at the board. As you can see, the layout of the board is exactly the same with the layout of the Arduino Uno board. The chip uses 3.3V logic level but it is 5V tolerant. On the board we can see the Intel Curie chip, the Bluetooth Antenna some Logic level shifting chips and a Flash Memory Chip.
The Intel Curie chip is really interesting. I have created a simple table in order to be easier to see the most important features of this chip. It was developed by Intel for low-power wearable devices. There are two processors inside this chip both clocked at 32MHz. There is an ARC RISC processor and an x86 Quark processor. Both processors operate simultaneously. The ARC core executes the programs we develop and communicates with the x86 core that takes care of the Bluetooth Low Energy stack and USB communication.
The chip also offers Bluetooth LE connectivity, 24KBs of RAM memory, 196KBs of flash memory, 14 GPIO pins, SPI, I2C, UART, I2S busses, up to 6 ADCs, Gyroscope, A six axis Accelerometer and a Real Time Clock.
In my opinion the most interesting feature the chip offers is the Pattern Matching Engine! This Engine contains a 128 node Hardware Neural Network.
Compared to an Arduino Uno, the Arduino 101 is light years ahead! The technology inside the Intel Curie chip is very advanced! As you can see it outperforms the Arduino Uno in every field. From the specs we can see the Arduino 101 operates at a frequency which is double of the frequency that the Arduino Uno operates. So, in theory the Arduino 101 must be at least two times faster than the Arduino Uno. But is that the case?
đģ Code & Parts: educ8s.tv/arduino-101
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đŽ My Android Game: bit.ly/QuizOfKnowledge
Dear friends welcome to another Arduino Tutorial! Today we are going to take a first look at the impressive Arduino 101 board. đŽ My Android Game: bit.ly/QuizOfKnowledge
The board offers some amazing features like a dual core processor and a Hardware Neural Network for Artificial Intelligence applications. Without any further delay, let's get started!
Today I am very excited because we are going to play with this new board the Arduino 101. This board was announced two years ago, and it was released last year, but I just received one. It was designed to be the successor of the Arduino Uno. At first I was not impressed by the specs of the board and I hesitated to order one. But when a company like Intel enters the maker community their offering must be unique. So I decided to try it, mostly interested in its Bluetooth connectivity. Only when the board arrived I discovered that inside the Intel Curie chip there is also a Hardware Neural Network that we can use in our projects! Yes, that's right! We can develop Artificial Intelligence programs with this board! I really don't know why Intel or Arduino do not advertise this feature at all. The board costs around 30$ and Gearbest.com website was kind enough to send me a sample board to test it.
At first let's take a look at the board. As you can see, the layout of the board is exactly the same with the layout of the Arduino Uno board. The chip uses 3.3V logic level but it is 5V tolerant. On the board we can see the Intel Curie chip, the Bluetooth Antenna some Logic level shifting chips and a Flash Memory Chip.
The Intel Curie chip is really interesting. I have created a simple table in order to be easier to see the most important features of this chip. It was developed by Intel for low-power wearable devices. There are two processors inside this chip both clocked at 32MHz. There is an ARC RISC processor and an x86 Quark processor. Both processors operate simultaneously. The ARC core executes the programs we develop and communicates with the x86 core that takes care of the Bluetooth Low Energy stack and USB communication.
The chip also offers Bluetooth LE connectivity, 24KBs of RAM memory, 196KBs of flash memory, 14 GPIO pins, SPI, I2C, UART, I2S busses, up to 6 ADCs, Gyroscope, A six axis Accelerometer and a Real Time Clock.
In my opinion the most interesting feature the chip offers is the Pattern Matching Engine! This Engine contains a 128 node Hardware Neural Network.
Compared to an Arduino Uno, the Arduino 101 is light years ahead! The technology inside the Intel Curie chip is very advanced! As you can see it outperforms the Arduino Uno in every field. From the specs we can see the Arduino 101 operates at a frequency which is double of the frequency that the Arduino Uno operates. So, in theory the Arduino 101 must be at least two times faster than the Arduino Uno. But is that the case?
đģ Code & Parts: educ8s.tv/arduino-101
Want to learn to code?
đ¨âđģ Check my new YouTube channel: bit.ly/3tku2n0
đŽ My Android Game: bit.ly/QuizOfKnowledge
