A fully-featured development board for the Raspberry Pi with various sensors and communication protocols such as a 3D Gyroscope, Accelerometer, and 8 Microphone Array, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and more!
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 the complex Internet of Things (IoT) app creation.
It is a development board designed for Raspberry Pi with an FPGA, a microcontroller, sensors like an IMU, temperature, humidity, light sensor, IR, 8 microphone array and 35 LED array. Also, it has integrated Z-Wave and ZigBee communications, all to allow novice and expert software developers alike to build hardware applications easily.
Specifications
| 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 |
| Weight(g) | 104 |
| Shipment Weight | 0.13 kg |
Features:
- Microcontroller – Atmel Cortex-M3 ATSAM3S2
- FPGA – Xilinx Spartan 6 XC6SLX4
- 8 MEMS Microphone Array (DIY Amazon Echo)
- 3D Magnetometer
- Ultraviolet sensor
- Pressure sensor
- 3D Accelerometer
- 3D Gyroscope
- 3D Magnetometer
- Humidity sensor
Package Includes
- 1 x Matrix Creator IoT Development Board
- 1 x User Guide





















