SparkFun Goals on the Stars with Satellite tv for pc-Based mostly MicroMod GNSS Service, Artemis World Tracker Boards

SparkFun has introduced the launch of two new satellite-connected growth boards, one which provides World Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS) help to the MicroMod ecosystem and one other that makes use of the Iridium constellation to supply world location monitoring and knowledge transmission.

“The SparkFun MicroMod GNSS Service Board raises the bar for high-precision GPS and is in a line of highly effective RTK [Real-Time Kinematics] boards that includes the ZED-F9P module from u-blox,” SparkFun writes of its newest MicroMod board. “The ZED-F9P is a top-of-the-line module for prime accuracy GNSS and GPS location options together with RTK that’s able to 10mm, three-dimensional accuracy. With this board, it is possible for you to to know the place your (or any object’s) X, Y, and Z location is inside roughly the width of your fingernail!”

The board is designed for the MicroMod ecosystem, accepting a modular MicroMod Processor Board into an M.2 slot — that means that totally different processor boards may be swapped out and in on-demand, permitting initiatives to be constructed round one processor then upgraded or downgraded ought to necessities change. There are two USB TYpe-C connectors for energy and programming, an SMA connector for an antenna, and a Qwiic connector for add-on {hardware}.

The Artemis World Tracker, against this is a completely stand-alone gadget – promoted by SparkFun as “[possibly] the one tracker to rule all of them.” The board is powered by an Artemis Module, onto which SparkFun has added an Iridium 9603N Quick Burst Information modem, u-blox ZOE-M8Q GNSS receiver, and a TE MS8607 PHT sensor — enabling you, in SparkFun’s phrases, to “do an unimaginable variety of issues that was once very troublesome.”

Designed to connect with the Iridium satellite tv for pc community — which pulls with it a cost of round $17 per 30 days, and is locked to supplier Floor Management (also called Rock Seven) except you pay a $60 unlocking price – the Arduino-compatible board gives the power to ship and obtain brief knowledge messages wherever on the earth, offering there is a clear view of the sky.

The GNSS system offers location monitoring, together with triggering on 4 configurable geofence areas, whereas the in-board sensor gives temperature, humidity, and stress readings — and the board has Qwiic headers for exterior {hardware}, together with I2C, SPI, 5 digital enter/output, and 5 general-purpose enter/output pins.

The MicroMod GNSS Service Board is out there now on the SparkFun retailer at $324.95, with extra info out there in its hookup information; consumers may also want a MicroMod Processor Board, beginning at $11.95 for an RP2040 mannequin. The Artemis World Tracker is out there from the shop at $399.95, with its personal hookup information additionally out there.