Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 - The Pi Hut

The basic Arduino board to build secure WiFi and Bluetooth® applications.

The Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 is the easiest point of entry to basic IoT and pico-network application design. Whether you are looking at building a sensor network connected to your office or home router, or if you want to create a BLE device sending data to a cellphone, the MKR WiFi 1010 is your one-stop-solution for many of the basic IoT application scenarios.

The board's main processor is a low power Arm® Cortex®-M0 32-bit SAMD21, like in the other boards within the Arduino MKR family. The WiFi and Bluetooth® connectivity is performed with a module from u-blox, the NINA-W10, a low power chipset operating in the 2.4GHz range. On top of those, secure communication is ensured through the Microchip® ECC508 crypto chip. Besides that, you can find a battery charger, and a directional RGB LED on-board.

Getting Started

TheGetting Startedsection contains all the information you need to configure your board, use the Arduino Software (IDE), and start tinkering with coding and electronics.

WiFi and Arduino IoT Cloud

Arduino have made connecting to a WiFi network as easy as getting an LED to blink.

You can get your board to connect to any kind of existing WiFi network, or use it to create your own Arduino Access Point. The specific set of examples we provide for the MKR WiFi 1010 can be consulted at theWiFiNINA library reference page.

It is also possible to connect your board to different Cloud services, Arduino's own among others. Here some examples on how to get the MKR WiFi 1010 to connect to:

• Arduino's own IoT Cloud:Arduino's IoT Cloud is a simple and fast way to ensure secure communication for all of your connected Things. Check it outhere
• Blynk:asimple projectfrom our community connecting to Blynk to operate your board from a phone with little code
• IFTTT:see an in-depth case ofbuilding a smart plugconnected to IFTTT
• AWS IoT Core:we madethis exampleon how to connect to Amazon Web Services
• Azure:visitthis github repositoryexplaining how to connect a temperature sensor to Azure's Cloud
• Firebase:you want to connect to Google's Firebase,this Arduino librarywill show you how

Bluetooth® and BLE

The communications chipset on the MKR WiFi 1010 can be both a BLE and Bluetooth® client and host device. Something pretty unique in the world of microcontroller platforms.

If you want to see how easy it is to create a Bluetooth® central or a peripheral device, explore the examples at the ArduinoBLE library.

Battery Power

Its USB port can be used to supply power (5V) to the board. It has a Li-Po charging circuit that allows the Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 to run on battery power or an external 5-volt source, charging the Li-Po battery while running on external power. Switching from one source to the other is performed automatically.

Resources

• Development Environments
  • Arduino IDE
  • Arduino CLI
  • Arduino Web Editor
  • Arduino IoT Cloud
• Getting Started
• Arduino IDE Software
• Datasheet
• Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 Pinout

Specifications

Microcontroller	SAMD21 Cortex®-M0+ 32bit low power ARM MCU(datasheet)
Radio module	u-blox NINA-W102 (datasheet)
Board Power Supply (USB/VIN)	5V
Secure Element	ATECC508 (datasheet)
Supported Battery	Li-Po Single Cell, 3.7V, 1024mAh Minimum
Circuit Operating Voltage	3.3V
Digital I/O Pins	8
PWM Pins	13 (0 .. 8, 10, 12, 18 / A3, 19 / A4)
UART	1
SPI	1
I2C	1
Analog Input Pins	7 (ADC 8/10/12 bit)
Analog Output Pins	1 (DAC 10 bit)
External Interrupts	8 (0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 / A1, 17 / A2)
DC Current per I/O Pin	7 mA
CPU Flash Memory	256 KB (internal)
SRAM	32 KB
EEPROM	no
Clock Speed	32.768 kHz (RTC), 48 MHz
LED_BUILTIN	6
USB	Full-Speed USB Device and embedded Host
Length	61.5 mm
Width	25 mm
Weight	32 gr.