M5GO IoT Starter Kit v2.6

SKU:K006-V26

Tutorials & Quick Start

Select the development platform you want to use, view the corresponding tutorials to get started.

UIFlow Arduino

Description

The M5GO IoT Starter Kit is a cost effective IoT starter development kit. The kit contains Core Controller M5GO + 6 expansion units with different functions (sensors/actuators/splitters) + . The core controller M5GO adopts Espressif ESP32 chip, equipped with 2 low-power Xtensa® 32-bit LX6 microprocessors, with a main frequency of 240MHz. With 16M FLASH memory for larger program size. Besides its powerful , the MCU also supports WiFi & Bluetooth dual-mode, which can be used to build smart wearable devices, smart home and other applications.

Product Features

• Based on ESP32 development
• 16M FLASH
• Integrated HD IPS display panel with various hardware peripherals
• Rich resources interface, compatible with M5Stack stacking modules and sensors, Strong expandability
• The base is compatible with 8mm size LEGO blocks, the structures just so interesting!
• Microsoft Azure authentication device
• Compatible with multi-platform development:
  • UIFlow
  • MicroPython
  • Arduino

M5GO IoT controller

• Low code development:
  • Supports UIFlow graphical programming platform, scripting-free, cloud push
  • Fully compatible with Arduino, ESP32-IDF and other mainstream development platforms
  • FreeRTOS support, with dual-core and multitasking mechanism, it can perform the tasks efficiently, Program optimization.
• High integration.
  • 2.0-inch IPS display panel, 6-axis IMU, programmable RGB lights x10, microphone, speaker, custom buttons x3
  • Built-in Li-ion power supply, integrated power management chip, supports TypeC interface and POGO PIN interface power supply
  • Finely tuned RF circuitry for stable and reliable wireless communication
• Strong expandability.
  • GROVE expansion ports x3 (I2C, GPIO, UART)
  • Easy access to M5Stack hardware and software system, stackable module design, plug-and-play sensor expansion

6x expansion units

• ENV UNIT III: Temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure sensors, with I2C communication interface for rapid acquisition of environmental information.
• PIR UNIT: Body sensor, passive pyroelectric for human body sensing, digital signal output status.
• ANGLE UNIT: Knob Potentiometer, analog signal input for music/lighting adjustment
• IR UNIT: Integrated infrared transmitter, receiver. Free coding, infrared transceiver.
• RGB UNIT: 3x Programmable RGB LED, support programming to control any color display
• HUB UNIT: I2C device splitter, expand single I2C bus to 3 channels, can access different I2C address devices

Switch on/off operation:
Power on: Click the left red button
Power off: Quick double click the left red button
USB power: By default, It can not be shutdown when USB power is on.

USB drive

Before using, please go to download page to download the USB driver that matches your operating system, and install it.
Note: M5GO currently has two CP2104/CH9102F A USB chip version, users can install the drivers (CH34x and CP210x) that are compatible with two ICs at the same time to ensure that the device drivers work normally.

Included

• 1x M5GO
• 6x Units(ENV III, IR, RGB, PIR, ANGLE, HUB)
• 4x LEGO Blocks
• 12x LEGO Connections
• 4x GROVE cable
• 1x Type-C USB (20cm)
• 1x Quick Start Guide

Applications

• STEM Education
• IoT Controller
• Smart Home
• Smart Weather Station

Specifications

M5GO base

Click for details of parameters

EasyLoader

Download Windows Version Easyloader

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

Pin Mapping

LCD screen & TF card

LCD Pixel: 320x240 TF card support up to 16GB

Button & Speaker

GROVE Interface A & IP5306

The power management chip (IP5306) is a custom I2C version, and its I2C address is 0x75. Click here to view the IP5306's register manual.

IP5306 charge/discharge, voltage parameters

MPU6886 3-axis accelerometer + 3-axis gyroscope

MPU6886 I2C address 0x68

M5GO Base Pins

GROVE Interface B

GROVE Interface C

LED strip & microphone & speaker

M5 Port Description

ESP32 ADC/DAC

M-BUS

When use the RGB LEDs of GPIO15, we recommend initialize the pins Mode(15, OUTPUT_OPEN_DRAIN); For more info about pin assignment and pin remapping, please refer to ESP32 datasheet

Related links

• Datasheet

  • ESP32
  • MPU6886
  • IP5306

• API

  • Arduino API

Schematic

• Schematic

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Case program

Arduino

• Click here to see the Arduino example

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