The New Arduino Giga R1 WiFi (Part 1) #arduino #gigar1wifi

It's almost like xmas in March when Arduino releases a new board. Follow along as I explore the Arduino Giga, and see what makes it tick. This is the first part of a two part video, the second part being released at some point shortly and will contain a project made with the Arduino Giga.

Thank you to Arduino for sending me this board for review! All opinions expressed in this video are my own though.

#gigar1 #gigar1wifi #arduino #arduinogiga

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Correction for 5:08 : It should be 0-4096, not 0-1023. The DAC is 12-bits.

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[Arduino]

Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to part two!

[ninjarobotmonky]

Nice to see you!
What a lovely little explanation video, thanks for taking the time to create, edit, and share :)

[bluegizmo]

This new Giga R1 is gonna make some great projects! One use I can see for sure is in the DIY vehicle ECU market. Right now, one of the common DIY ECU kits on the market is the Speeduino, which uses an Arduino Mega as the brain, but is somewhat limited in functionality due to the slow processor and memory limitations, plus no built-in WiFi or Canbus. This new Giga R1 would be a fantastic replacement for the Mega in this area, but would require some slight redesign to accommodate the new pinout of the Giga, plus some logic level shifting would be required to accommodate the new 3.3V IO instead of 5V.

[ericBcreator]

It looks interesting but is not really suited for small projects and neither cheap, even more expensive than a RPi.

[theelectricmonk]

Nice! But TBH I'll be sticking to the ESP32... So, it doesn't have as many pins, nor an "off" pad (or a RTC as far as I know) - but it does have WiFi, "enough" pins, can be programmed via the Arduino IDE (or not, as you prefer)... and is around 1/10th the price for a devkit board. It's great to see WiFi coming to Arduino though!

[bobweiram]

Interesting, but the Raspberry Pi Pico's PIO changes the game. It can perform complex, high speed protocols over IO in realtime without bogging down its cores. You can render VGA graphics, for example, and still have the CPU available to run a simulator.

[danieltudor]

finally a big wifi board ! all the extra are a nice to have also, I hope the price is affordable.

[LimbaZero]

It seems like stripped down version of STM32F746DISCOVERY board with bigger chip. Missing POE, Display, 4GB EMMC, ST-Link. Ok those features limit what GPIO I can have.
For that size of chip I start to recommend ST-Link for debugging. Ability to step code and check internal ram/registers/peripherals start to be gold if you need to investigating why it's behaving oddly.

[cx]

Few years ago the big thing that prompt me to other providers was WiFi or Arduino lack of.
Minor against was the size of that board. Yes others such as Arduino NANO was a lot smaller footprint.

[FinlayDaGk]

I've been looking at a variety of boards to make my car's new dashboard... I think I may have found a very solid candidate.

[cheetahkid]

hmm, thank for sharing! I was thinking, can we use it for 3d printing and camera and extra stuff all in?

[prigadiri]

Just ordered uno r3. Now I have to wait for two months :D

[michaelw]

I have a little bit of an Arduino obsession. They should have called this gem the "Arduino SWEET!" Must have. Thanks for the run-down.

[fench]

Can you use just any arduino compatible touch screen TFT or otherwise with the Giga R1? How do you connect it? I haven't seen much listing of compatibility or display screen products available that explicitly include the Giga R1.

[pyalot]

Yay finally wifi with an antenna connector on an arduino. Have been using that on ESP32 costing 1/5th of an arduino at 1/10th the board size for years...

[mr.gtero]

Comparative with Portenta?

Or not comparable?

Greetings Open Hardware'rs

[thegreenpickel]

@ 5:09 Wouldn't a 12bit dac have 0 - 4095 steps and a 10 bit dac have 1023 steps? Nice board and video.

[fusseldieb]

Looks like the Arduino looked up to the ESP32/8266 boards and finally wants a slice of the pie ;)

[kippie]

this could be a killer board for klipper. Both MCU and Host in same chip on 3D printers

[playdav]

i would like to see that used for some sort of self driving it has can communication etc