Introducing the Project Lab

Our mission is deceptively simple: to make hardware development as fast and easy as web or mobile development. And to that end, we’ve spent five years solving incredibly difficult challenges to democratize hardware development for all.

Prototype without breadboarding.

This week, we announced the Project Lab Board; a new product that is the next step in our progress towards that mission.

The Project Lab enables you to prototype and build IoT without having to do any breadboarding or soldering. Simply use the built in peripherals and/or plug in any of the thousands of peripherals in the Grove/Stemma/Qwiic/mikroBUS ecosystem and build today. 

Tons of high-quality integrated peripherals.

With it, you can go from zero to prototype with no more hardware integration effort than it takes to plug in peripherals. And because it’s packed with a wide array of state-of-the-art, built-in peripherals, you can build an endless number of solutions without even having to plug anything in. Onboard, you’ll find:

• BMI270 Accelerometer/Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) – The BMI270 is a brand-new, state of the art accelerometer. Not only does it provide accelerometer functionality, but it’s also a full IMU and has built-in gesture recognition.
• BME688 Temperature/Pressure/Humidity/Air Quality Index (AQI) Sensor – Need atmospheric info? No problem. The BME688 offers best in class atmospheric data including gas and air quality.
• 1.54” 240×240 LCD Screen and Directional Pad Buttons – Display information right on the board and use the buttons to provide navigability and interactivity.
• BH1750 Light Sensor – 16-bit ambient light sensor can be used to measure things like whether it’s day/night, and how bright it is.
• RS-485 Driver – Exposed via screw terminals, enables communicating directly with industrial sensors.
• Magnetic Audio Transducer – Effectively a small speaker, you can play tunes or even complex sounds.
• IO Screw Terminals – Easy to use screw terminals expose power, digital, and analog connections.

Massively Expandable with mikroBUS, Grove, and QWIIC/StemmaQT connectors.

Additionally, the following connectors make the board massively expandable, unlocking literally thousands of possible plug-in modules:

• (2) mikroBUS Connectors – With nearly 1,300 official mikroBUS click boards and tons of 3rd party boards that are mikroBUS compatible, we’re excited to unlock this ecosystem for Meadow users.
• (3) Grove/Qwiic/StemmaQT Connectors – Including I2C, Analog, Digital, and UART which unlocks a massive ecosystem of pluggable peripherals from SeeedStudio, Adafruit, and SparkFun!

Completely Free and Open-Source Hardware (FOSH) design.

The Project Lab board is meant to be a jumping off point for your own designs. It’s a 100% open source reference hardware design, and you can copy and paste all or some of it into your own production designs!

Tons of samples.

We’ve got you covered with samples, too. Check out the Meadow.ProjectLab.Samples repo to get you started building today.

Get yours today!

Order yours today, we’re even throwing in a significant discount if you buy more than one.