As we mentioned on Iteaduino Plus page, we will provide a variety of Plugs for the board subsequently. Currently we are testing an Arduino Plug, whose main function is to provide an Arduino-compatible pin socket including GPIO, SPI, IIC and UART interfaces, so that Iteaduino Plus can work with various Arduino shields – of course, the shields must support 3.3V IO operation level.
As you can see, there are Xbee-compatible 2.0mm female headers on the board in addition to Arduino-compatible headers. For interfaces, there are UART and reset pin only, thus all the Bee modules that support XBee pin and adopt UART interface can work on the Plug shield including BTBee and WifiBee, etc. offered by ITEAD.
What’s more, there is an OLED panel with resolution of 128×64 on the board. With use of IIC interface for communication , it can display a variety of information when Iteaduino Plus is running. In the future, ITEAD OS SDK will offer driver and operation functions for the panel as well as IIC bus so that users can easily use the display function of Arduino Plug.
Arduino Plug is expected to be put on sale early next month, and it will be equipped with a short cable and some additional studs for fixing. Stay tuned to our website, there will be more plugs and add on coming with many other features !
