Electronics’ ProDino Ethernet Board Packs an Arduino MKR Zero and More

Bulgaria-based KMP Electronics has recently released a new development board designed for industrial and home automation applications, although you can implement it in just about any project. According to the company, the ProDuino Zero Ethernet board is a “modern and powerful Arduino board with an Ethernet connection,” and beyond the applications mentioned above, can be used as a learning tool for 32-bit application development.

The PiDuino Zero Ethernet board features an Arduino MKR Zero-based development board, which packs a Microchip SAM D21 MCU with a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M0+. It also sports a WIZnet W5500 Ethernet chip, a Grove digital connector, four relays, four optically isolated inputs, an RS485 port, and Arduino MKR GSM 1400 compatibility.

KMP Electronics has already employed the board for a host of simple demonstration projects, including a repeater using a connected USB RS485 isolated converter and the Hercules Setup Utility to test software. The company even used it for a web-based relay, IoT sensor applications utilizing Blynk, and to create an MQTT-based relay automation server (shown in the video).

The ProDino Zero Ethernet board is now on KMP Electronics’ Tindie page with a price tag of $63.43. Plenty of tutorials, project examples, and code needed to get the ProDino Zero up and running can be found on the company’s website, making it easy for those who are new to Arduino and the IoT to get started. It will be interesting to see what makers and engineers use this platform to build over the next few months.