The Arduino Explore IoT Kit

let's have a look at the Arduino explore iot kit and as the title says this kit is specifically designed for aot education and experimentation so having a look inside first thing to notice is that the kit contains the nkr iot carrier board so unusual shaped board it's a circular board it has an OLED screen in the Middle with touch sensors along the side so one two three four five touch sensors you can assign those touch sensor button equivalents to various functions each one has got its own LED that you can also program and use accordingly this also senses here in the front so there's a light intensity sensor a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor plus another couple of 30 days here as well you can remove it from the cardboard and you see the the rear of this board and in the rear you find a sort of headers where you can plug in the mkr 1010 board that board comes as part of the kit as well you also have two relays this board has two relay connectors here on this side so you can connect external large loads as a battery connector that you can use with batteries like this one this is of tribe 18650 3.7 volts rechargeable lithium-ion battery remember that the mkr-1010 has the ability to or to receive power from a battery like this and also to charge it so then uh other things that you find on this carrier board is an SD card reader and radar so you can plug in a mini SD card here record look data from sensors for example there are connectors up here these connectors are A6 and a5s you can see the silk screen here indicate the signal that goes through these connectors and this one here is an i squared C connector this connector here is for your battery so you can use a short cable that is also included in the kit to connect battery power to your Arduino mkr 1010 device so that's the board the carrier board also in the cardboard at the the top of the kit you'll see the activation code for your Arduino course so you can go to arduino.cc forward slash edu for slash start and type in this activation code and you get access to educational material very nice now Inside the Box we've got a plastic case that you can use to install the carrier board in so that would go in with the screen towards the outside of the larger Shell let's say that will go in like this there's a little cutoff right here guiding you with how to insert the board in and it looks like this so now you are able to see through the the clear larger shell of the case you can see what's on the screen and you can also use and activate the touch sensors connect them to various functions and the sensors of course still work there is a set of screws here that allow you to secure the carrier board into the Container you can clip it in and it stays nice and secure there it's also a screw cut out so you can mount this on say the wall if you want to use this as an environment monitor perhaps Inside the Box most important other component is the Arduino mkr Wi-Fi 1010 so let's take it out of the box so there's the Arduino and KR 1010 and that connects just be careful with the alignment um you've got looking at the side here you've got the a ref pin up here I'll match that with the a ref pin right here the mkr so the appropriate way to connect these two together is this there you go so that's how it all fits together Next Up Inside the Box we've got the USB cable and a member of wires jumper wires A PIR motion sensor a capacitive soil moisture sensor and the battery walk connector the battery cable so to assemble all this together I'm just going to remove this sticker it's a predictive sticker it can connect the battery if you are using a battery of course that connector that wire will go into the connector like that and then on the carrier board like that now imagine that you've got a battery here as long as the orientation is correct this battery is not charged so nothing is going to happen when I plug it in but they would look like this when the battery is connected now you've got a couple of other connectors so for example uh you've got let's say the capacitive soil moisture sensor this device here you can use one of these wires one of these cables to connect your moisture sensor to one of the analog ports on the carrier board and I would look like this so now you can place this sensor inside a a port with the planted soil you can use your carrier board with the Arduino mkr 1010 on it to monitor the soil humidity and make decisions of whether perhaps the the plant needs additional water then you can use a pump connected to one of the relays activate the pump and deposit to draw some water from our reservoir for the port and increase the moisture level of the soil there it's just one of the possible applications all right so that's the contents of the Arduino explore IO ticket what is really nice about this kit is that it's carrier board contains a lot of components that otherwise you would need to plug in with wires to your Arduino there are equivalent of buttons here so they can activate various functions of your project there's a screen to show things such as moisture levels for soil or readings from the integrated sensors down here and of course the whole package can be battery powered so it doesn't need to be Tethered to a computer okay let's continue with the next lecture where I'll show you the contents of the Arduino sensor kit from Sage Studio

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Length: 8min 16sec (496 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 13 2022