New Particle hardware?

[Carsten4207]

Awesome new hardware! Congrats guys!

[kmmonk]

Thanks!!!

[MikeWhitten]

Well, then, take my money.

[seulater]

@will, if you do decide to come out with a ESP32 specific module in the future, please also release another specific Particle Ethernet FeatherWing for it also. Using the WIZnet W5500 chip for the ESP32 makes no sense because the ESP32 has this built in. Just need the PHY like a LAN8710.
Or just bring out all the ESP32 pins to a header so at least we can do that on our main board.

[Aaron-Osbeehives]

Well done, Particle!

[kmmonk]

[MikeWhitten]

Small nice touch - haven’t even finished checking out but needed to update my cc. That’s the nicest card entry field I’ve used. Props to whoever did that.

[kmmonk]

@jvanier would be the guy!

[nrobinson2000]

I just bought two argons and an ethernet wing!

Buy some stuff too!

[kmmonk]

@nrobinson2000

[nrobinson2000]

[RWB]

@peekay123

The Nordic device is BLE/Mesh and VERY low power and their stack is very mature.

I'm happy to see the separate Bluetooth chip because of the BLE on the ESP32 from what I had seen before this release we not very low power due to the ESP32 requiring at least 80mA or so to run.

Still making my way through this thread so forgive me if this has already been mentioned

[ScruffR]

@seulater

Nothing I am working on will fit in the 1MB constraint, thus the reason for my moaning because I have to stick with this other platform which I’m not fond of.

IIRC, the Nordic chip can even execute code stored in the external flash.

@seulater

please also release another specific Particle Ethernet FeatherWing for it also.

This one should be able to route the Particle cloud traffic through Ethernet.

[duffo64]

Uhm… without knowing exactly what is planned for firmware, I think I just sit down and let the dust to settle.
The potential is there, though.

[peekay123]

@duffo64, its Particle! What else do you need to know

[Moors7]

@RWB

I’m happy to see the separate Bluetooth chip because of the BLE on the ESP32 from what I had seen before this release we not very low power due to the ESP32 requiring at least 80mA or so to run.

It's not a "separate Bluetooth chip", but rather the main MCU. The ESP is the "separate WiFi chip" in this regard.

New Argon module topic specific

Hey there @seulater – we’re using the ESP32-S0WD as a network co-processor for the Argon, so it’s not intended to run the primary user application. As such, we may not expose the same level of user APIs for controlling the coprocessor as the primary Nordic MCU. We haven’t completed software development for the new hardware though, so we’re open to feedback on features you’d like to see made available at the Particle API level.

[duffo64]

It’s Particle with a BLE integration to do ex-novo

[RWB]

@Moors7

It’s not a “separate Bluetooth chip”, but rather the main MCU. The ESP is the “separate WiFi chip” in this regard.

A little different than I thought then, but still good because it should be super low power.

I'm busy catching up on these forum post, haven't even looked at the new product pages yet.

[tommy_boy]

Any chance that Particle could invest their own dev resources into getting Particle traffic routed through CE’s ethernet overlay shield?

[ScruffR]

Be quick before they're all gone

@tommy_boy

Any chance that Particle could invest their own dev resources into getting Particle traffic routed through CE’s ethernet overlay shield?

I think there is already loads on their slate - especially for their own products (one of which will do exactly that) first I'd guess