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FIRE

SKU:K007

Tutorial

Choose the development platform you want to use, view the corresponding tutorial&quick-Start.

UIFlow UIFlow
UIFlow
This tutorial will show you how to control FIRE devices through the UIFlow graphical programming platform
UIFlow2.0 UIFlow2.0
UIFlow2.0
This tutorial will show you how to control the FIRE device through the UIFlow2.0 graphical programming platform
Arduino IDE Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE
This tutorial will show you how to program and control FIRE devices through Arduino IDE
Micropython Micropython
Micropython
This tutorial will show you how to control FIRE devices through Micropython programming

Description

M5Stack FIRE Kit, as one of the M5Stack developing kit series, is an upgrade from the Gray kits. Providing 9-Axis IMU sensor(6-Axis posture acceleration measurement + 3-Axis magnetic measurement), it equips with more hardware resources : 16M Flash + 8M PSRAM , enhanced Base (M5GO Base and M5GO CHG Base), larger battery, etc. For those developers who ask for hardware performance, Fire will be a good choice.

With a IMU posture sensor, there are a lot of situations which you can apply this kit to: detecting acceleration, angulation, and trajectory. You can make relative products like sports data collector, 3D remote gesture controller and more base on the above functions.

FIRE is M5 Core device. Its modular, stackable, scalable, and portable device is powered with an ESP-32 core, which makes it open source, low cost, full-function, and easy for developers to handle new product development on all stages include circuit design, PCB design, software, mold design and production.

M5Stack Fire comes with three separable parts. The top part ,just like Basic and Gray Kit, has all kinds of processors, chips ,sockets, 2.4G antenna, ESP32, power management IC , a LCD screen and some other interface components. The middle part is called M5GO base which provides a lithium battery, M-BUS socket , LED bar and three more GROVE Ports. The bottom part is a charge table, which can be connected to the M5GO base via POGO pins.

Supportive development platforms and programming languages: Arduino, Blockly language with UIFlow , Micropython. Regardless of what level programming skill you have, M5Stack would guide you in every step of the way to realize your idea as well as to the final productlzation.

If you ever played with ESP8266, you would realize that ESP32 is a perfect upgrade out of ESP8266. In comparison, ESP32 has more GPIOs, more analog inputs and two analog outputs, multiple extra peripherals( like a spare UART ). Official developing platform ESP-IDF has transplanted with FreeRTOS. With dual-core and real time OS you can get more organized code and much high speed processor.

Notice:
The GPIO 16 / 17 in Fire is connected to the PSRAM by default, so when you connect or stack other function modules, you need to avoid conflicts with these two pins to prevent the device from working improperly and causing instability.
Power on/off:
Power on: click the red power button on the left
Power off: Quickly double-click the red power button on the left
Note: By default, when USB is powered, it cannot be shut down

Product Features

  • ESP32-based
  • Speaker, 3 Buttons, LCD(320*240)
  • TF card slot (16G Maximum size)
  • Battery Socket & Lithium Polymer Battery
  • Extendable Pins & Holes
  • M-Bus Socket & Pins
  • Compatible with multi-platform development:

Include

  • 1x FIRE
  • 1x M5GO CHG Base
  • 2x LEGO block
  • 5x LEGO connector
  • 1x M3 HEX KEY
  • 1x Type-C USB(100cm)
  • 1x User Manual

Applications

  • Internet of things terminal controller
  • Stem education product
  • DIY creation

Specification

Resources Parameter
ESP32 240MHz dual core, 600 DMIPS, 520KB SRAM, Wi-Fi
Flash Memory 16MB
PSRAM 8MB
Power Input 5V @ 500mA
Port TypeC x 1, GROVE(I2C+I/0+UART) x 1
IPS Screen 2 inch, 320x240 Colorful TFT LCD, ILI9342C, max brightness 853nit
Speaker 1W-0928
Button Custom button x 3
MEMS BMM150 + SH200Q/MPU6886
Battery 500 mAh @ 3.7V
Antenna 2.4G 3D Antenna
Operating Temperature 0°C to 60°C
Net weight 62.3g
Gross weight 162g
Product Size 54mm x 54mm x 30.5mm
Package Size 105mm x 65mm x 40mm
Case Material Plastic ( PC )

Driver Installation

Click the link below to download the driver that matches the operating system. There are currently two driver chip versions (CP210X/CH9102). Please download the corresponding driver compressed package according to the version you are using. After decompressing the compressed package, select the installation package corresponding to the number of operating systems to install. (If you are not sure of the USB chip used by your device, you can install both drivers at the same time. During the installation process of CH9102_VCP_SER_MacOS v1.7, an error may occur, but the installation is actually completed, just ignore it.)
Driver name Applicable driver chip Download link
CP210x_VCP_Windows CP2104 Download
CP210x_VCP_MacOS CP2104 Download
CP210x_VCP_Linux CP2104 Download
CH9102_VCP_SER_Windows CH9102 Download
CH9102_VCP_SER_MacOS v1.7 CH9102 Download

EasyLoader

EasyLoader is a concise and fast program writer, which has a built-in case program related to the product. It can be burned to the main control by simple steps to perform a series of function verification.

Download Windows Version Easyloader

Description:
Load UIFlow firmware, built-in demo program supports testing of accelerometer, LED BAR, microphone, buttons and some peripheral sensors. The firmware can be used for UIFlow graphical programming.

Peripherals Pin Map

LCD & TF card

LCD :320x240 TF card Maximum size 16GB

ESP32 Chip GPIO23 GPIO19 GPIO18 GPIO14 GPIO27 GPIO33 GPIO32 GPIO4
ILI9342C MOSI/MISO / CLK CS DC RST BL
TF Card MOSI MISO CLK CS

Button & Speaker

ESP32 Chip GPIO39 GPIO38 GPIO37 GPIO25
Button Pin BUTTON A BUTTON B BUTTON C /
Speaker Speaker Pin

GROVE Port A & IP5306

We've use the customized I2C version of IP5306, on power management.

Its I2C address is 0x75. Click here to check its datasheet

ESP32 Chip GPIO22 GPIO21 5V GND
GROVE A SCL SDA 5V GND
IP5306 SCL SDA 5V GND

IP5306 charging/discharging,Voltage parameter

charging discharging
0.00 ~ 3.40V -> 0% 4.20 ~ 4.07V -> 100%
3.40 ~ 3.61V -> 25% 4.07 ~ 3.81V -> 75%
3.61 ~ 3.88V -> 50% 3.81 ~ 3.55V -> 50%
3.88 ~ 4.12V -> 75% 3.55 ~ 3.33V -> 25%
4.12 ~ / -> 100% 3.33 ~ 0.00V -> 0%

6-Axis MotionTracking Sensor MPU6886

MPU6886 I2C address 0x68

ESP32 Chip GPIO22 GPIO21 5V GND
MPU6886 SCL SDA 5V GND

3-Axis Geomagnetic Sensor BMM150

BMM150 I2C address 0x10

ESP32 Chip GPIO22 GPIO21 5V GND
BMM150 SCL SDA 5V GND

M5GO Base Port

GROVE Port B

ESP32 Chip GPIO36 GPIO26 5V GND
GROVE B GPIO36 GPIO26 5V GND

GROVE Port C

ESP32 Chip GPIO16 GPIO17 5V GND
GROVE C RXD TXD 5V GND

LED Bar & Microphone & Speaker

ESP32 Chip GPIO15 GPIO34 GPIO25
Hardwares SIG Pin MIC Pin Speaker Pin

M5PORT DEFINE

PORT PIN Note:
PORT-A(Red) G21/22 I2C
PORT-B(Black) G26/36 DAC/ADC
PORT-C(Blue) G16/17 UART

ESP32 ADC/DAC

ADC1 ADC2 DAC1 DAC2
8 channels 10 channels 2 channels 2 channels
G32-39 G0/2/4/12-15/25-27 G25 G26

M-BUS

M_BUS

When using the RGB LED of gpio15, it is recommended to initialize,pinMode(15, OUTPUT_OPEN_DRAIN); For more information about Pin assignment and Pin Remapping, Please refer to ESP32 Datasheet

Schematic

Example

Arduino

  • Click here to get Arduino code

Video

m5stack introduce

Version Change

Release Date Product Change Note:
2018.6 Initial public release /
2019.7 MPU9250 changed to SH200Q+BMM150, TN screen changed to IPS screen before use . pls upgrade your M5Stack lib to the latest version (after 0.2.8) to solve screen reverse color problem.
2019.8 SH200Q changed to MPU6886 /
2019.11 Battery capacity changed from 600mAh to 500mAh /
2020.4 PSRAM Size changed from 4MB to 8MB /
Note: 2018.2A PCB version of the device does not support C2C (TypeC to TypeC) connection and PD power supply.