Contest Summary
NXP is sponsoring a customer contest with hackster.io and the community users already familiar with NXP (ex-Freescale) Kinetis MCU programming (especially FRDM-K64F and FRDM-KW40Z ones) could be interested to participate.
Participants can NOW and until July 15th submit their project idea and get a chance to receive for free one of the 100 Hexiwear kits for their development (value $100 each).
Then they will have until August 29th to build and publish their project to get a chance to win one of the 3 drones DJI Phantom 3 Pro Carbon (value $1500 each).
More information/registration: www.hackster.io/challenges/Hexiwear
Don’t hesitate to share this invitation with your Maker team, we need as much participant as possible to make this contest a real success
Hexiwear information
NXP is introducing some new portfolio of Solutions to better support startup and innovator/maker projects.
The target is to accelerate your time to market, reduce your development and manufacturing costs and secure your migration from Prototype to Production.
Our first product is called HexiwearHexiwear, it is ARM Cortex-M4 MCU based and targeting IoT applications
More information about the product available at: www.hexiwear.com
For just $49, this open-source reference-design for connected applications delivers in a very compact form-factor (2x2 inch) more features than the classical MCU boards extended with multiple shields/accessory boards, which total resale price would be approx. $100-$125 (see pictures below)
Thanks to the Docking stationDocking station, customer can easily program and debug their code and expand the board features with up to 3x Click
boards among a portfolio of 200 references (see pictures below).
The number of applications, which can benefit of this solution is quasi unlimited, basically every connected/IoT application can be prototyped with this board (Thermostat, Sensor node, light control, alarm system, home-healthcare, fitness)
Considering the aggressive cost and the feature integration of the board, especially the Bluetooth one, customer can purchase several boards to create their network or even potentially go to Pre-Series with it.
Hexiwear is based on 7x NXP Components (Kinetis K64FK64F main MCU, Kinetis KW40zKW40z BLE/802.15.4 SoC and K20DX Debugger, FXOS8700FXOS8700 combo accelero/magneto-meter, FXAS21002FXAS21002 gyroscope, MPL3115MPL3115 pressure altimeter, MC34671MC34671 battery charger) and features a total of 8x Sensors (accelero/magneto-meter, gyroscope, pressure altimeter, temperature, humidity, ambient light and Maxim MAX30101 Optical Heart Rate) as well as a 1.1” OLED color display and a Li-Po battery (see block diagram below)
Design files and source-code are downloadable for free from the github repository to encourage customer reuse: www.github.com/MikroElektronika/HEXIWEAR
