The results of great inventions often seem simple, however, they can provide practical solutions to real-world problems.
This year 2021, M5stack is challenging innovative and entrepreneurial engineering, design professionals and recent graduates from around the world to design a solution to a real-world problem. Aiming to unlock the diverse creative potential of individuals seeking solutions to critical problems, the selected winner will be rewarded with a generous 100 pieces of M5Stamp Pico! In addition, the ability to follow the development of open source hardware, from coder to designer, from creator to inventor.
Many young people have dreams of changing the world and this campaign has been created to help them achieve," said Jimmy, M5Stack CEO and founder. "The call for entries not only provides strong project support for entrants' creative proposals, but also a platform to showcase and validate the value of their designs. The data shows that 65% of the international awardees were able to commercialise their creative solutions, which is quite an impressive achievement. I hope to see many more innovative inventions that think outside the box. Good luck to everyone!"
About M5Stamp Pico
M5Stamp Pico is M5Stack's new cost-effective ‘plug-and-play’ ESP32 miniature module. It features an ultra-compact design with two low-power Xtensa® 32-bit LX6 microprocessors at 240MHz on a PCB as tiny and delicate as a postage stamp.
It is ideal for any space-constrained or battery-powered devices such as wearables, home automations, smart sensors, and other IoT applications.
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Requirements
Entrants must describe exactly what they have invented, how they work. The M5Stamp Pico Base/Extensions you designed must meet the following requirements.
How to submit
Open internationally，Please email Support@M5Stack.com to submit your project, only one winner will be awarded. If your project is selected, we will contact you for give-away 100 pieces M5Stamp Pico!
Specified hardware
M5Stamp Pico
**This campaign is open two months for submission (till December 10th), if there is a change, the time frame will be subject to the further announcement
In today’s digital economy, It is more important to be very accurate about measuring service quality. Especially for enterprises, they will likely require increasingly strict performance for real-time and ultra-reliable applications.
Developing and assurance to meet new quality in service requirements are critical to leadership in the IoT era. The accuracy of measuring service quality is of greater importance than ever before. Monitoring requires highly granular and proactive measurements to detect problems as they arise and before they will affect customer service.
Software and Automation are essential for driving customer satisfaction and simplifying operations. Service operations need to be able to identify, understand, eliminate and resolve the issues before they impact your service and customer experience.
Ericsson IoT Accelerator enables enterprises to easily deploy, manage and scale their global IoT business from a unified IoT platform. In order to achieve more together. M5 working together with Ericsson on an application, offering active assurance and works by measuring end-to-end service quality through reading data from embedded sensors and showing them on a dashboard, managing connectivity on a subscription and network-level through IoT Accelerator APIs.
Whether you have an established modern service assurance framework or not. Learn more about how to use proactive assurance to optimize cost predictability and increase service security that enable a proactive, service-centric operating model.
Read our Quick user guide to register M5Stack+COM.LTE to AWS IoT platform to learn more.
We are ready to send students back to school with some serious tech gear. For a good reason — M5 has just about everything to get you or your kids get smarter through the year.
Get those discounts ready, because we are having a major back-to-school sale. From August 10th-24th, Right now you will receive 15% off all premier selected items picked from us to add some more fun to your school life.
Even if you aren’t a student heading back to school, ’tis the season to splurge on some necessities and upgrade your tech, including AI Camera for your Edge Computing, AWS IoT EduKit for getting started IoT projects. If you have no idea where to start, Link below has also listed a few checklists you can use to get ready!
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On May 6-8,2021 M5Stack showcased our industrial IoT products series and solution at the 2021 Shanghai Intelligent Factory Exhibition,M5stack was invited to participate in the No.5 International Exhibition Area.
M5Stack focused its efforts to augment understanding for and recognition of both products and the brand, "Smart Factory Solutions," including industry robots, automation technologies for production lines, PLC and sensors.
The series of DTU products stay abreast with smaller size and lighter weight, also meeting the demand for higher precision control and performance. Its excellent performance and resolution, and its compact and robust body drew a crowd at the M5stack booth. M5Stack team also introduced other series products perfectly Substitute for PLC such as ODrive,The ATOM HUB series also showcased solutions such as building circuits or connecting peripherals according to users' own needs to satisfy the functions and requirements of specific scenarios. Smart PLC and Smart DTU series of products demonstrating its ability to make a comprehensive proposal For Smart Factory Solutions. many potential partners stopped by, further learned about Smart DTU and Smart PLC series products, and discussed the partnership!
Many visitors are attracted to M5Stack booth to inquire about Smart DTU and Smart PLC products.
About Shanghai Intelligent Factory Exhibition
SIA/Shanghai Intelligent Factory Exhibition”, formerly known as “Shanghai International Modern Industrial Intelligent Equipment Exhibition”, has been successfully held for many times and has become an indispensable brand exhibition for the domestic intelligent equipment industry，it covers industrial automation, robotics, AGV vehicles, machine vision and other fields. The “CME China machine tool exhibition” will be held at the same time, directly and comprehensively serving the entire industrial chain of the intelligent factory industry from source to terminal. The last exhibition covered an area of 120000 square meters, with 1200 exhibitors and 130,000 professional visitors.
About M5Stack
M5Stack is a technology company that designs and manufactures open-source development toolkit, including hardware, programming platform and IoT solutions. It was founded by Jimmy Lai in 2017 and based in Shenzhen, China.
M5STACK is on mission to "Quick&Easy IoT development", with M5STACK hardware middleware platform and ecosystem, IoT develop and deployment become easier and faster.
Please feel free to leave comments or contact us if you have any needs or inquiries about M5Stack industrial IoT products for comprehensive application, IoT edge application and smart home and industry control application! Stay tuned for our next updates!
On May 11, 2021, M5stack together with Microsoft team, kicking off with an inspiring seminar followed by a broad set of hands-on experiences and depth training workshop.
Developing an IoT solution involves circuit design, embedded systems, Wireless& telecommunications, network security, and the data of the server performance. The mix of knowledge and skills requirement can be very critical under Technological Complexity for engineers. As to enterprises, Prolonged Cycle, High risks, and recruiting difficulty are all pain points for entering into IoT Industry.
Therefore, combining modular hardware with managed cloud services is certainly a major technology trend that will realize IoT success.
M5Stack collaborated with Microsoft Azure to establish the key goal: Ensuring participants set up IoT solutions quick & easy with hardware and software that has been pre-flashed and verified to work with Azure loT Hub.
The plan for the seminar was to start by giving a brief keynote presentation introducing Azure IoT technology and service, functions of IoT Hub and IoT Central from the Microsoft team, following with hands-on experiences using M5Stack products, illustrating the range of project possibilities. M5Stack team presented the aims and objectives as well as the agenda for the rest of the workshop.
With that in mind, the M5Stack Core2 was the perfect hardware candidate, It can instantly connect the world of IoT hub with a drag-and-drop graphical programming environment - UIFlow. Simplifying the development process for those who require integrated hardware and software solutions.
M5Stack has been cooperating with Microsoft since the very beginning of Azure IoT Hub in 2017. Not only M5stack have far-reaching IoT applications in industry, retailing, and agriculture, but also empowers students to learn coding in the STEM sector.
About M5Stack
M5Stack is a technology company that designs and manufactures modular IoT development kit, including hardware, programming platform and IoT solutions. It was founded by Jimmy Lai in 2017 and based in Shenzhen, China.
M5STACK is on mission to "Quick&Easy IoT development", with M5STACK hardware platform and ecosystem, to achieve IoT development and deployment easier and faster.
Please feel free to leave comments or contact us if you have any needs or inquiries about M5Stack industrial IoT products for comprehensive application, edge computing application! Stay tuned for our next updates!
We’ve seen the number of COVID-19 related projects and contributors grow rapidly. So far these projects have been viewed by many unique users over the past year. In an effort to improve COVID-19 pandemic response,M5Stack collaborating with NYP (Nanyang Polytechnic) is a polytechnic located in Singapore in conjunction with ESPRESSIF on COVID-19 projects that helps people protect themselves.
The judging process for the M5Stack and NYP Project Based Learning Design Challenge takes place online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. M5Stack CEO Jimmy and the Vice General Manager of ESPRESSIF Stanza Wang as the main jury members judge the entries and give some suggestions on how to improve the project. Below are the winners projects in this challenge. We write this news hope more people discover these projects. All the projects will be published on Hackster.io.
Covid Tracker is a device that aims to increase the efficiency of the checking-in process and also provide users with live data to avoid crowded areas and lower the impact COVID-19 has on our daily life by finding a balance between safety and comfort.
Click here to learn more details about the project.
Hand Hygienics aims to reduce spread of Covid-19 through encouraging people to wash their hands thoroughly and properly. The team aim to solve the below problems.
Remind people to wash their hands
Ensure that soap, an essential germs killing ingredient, is available
Ensure that soap is used
Ensure that people washes their hand for at least 20 seconds
Show people the correct way to wash their hands
Click here to learn more details about the project.
Tap And Go is a replacement for safe entry. It can decrease queue durations, and is more convenient.
Click here to learn more details about the project.
This project aims to combat COVID-19. The team aim to install a station in libraries. Visitors would have to pass through it before proceeding. The station would have the ability to control crowd, sanitize visitors, and display number of current visitors. This device is fully automated, where the number of people in the library would be controlled without the need of human interference. By limiting number of people and sanitizing them, the risk of COVID-19 transmission would drastically reduce.
Click here to learn more details about the project.
The project use to track the amount of people going in and out of a specific place by counting and getting their UID on their whereabouts. Beside it is able to dispense sanitizer when anyone press button A. Hence limiting, controlling, sanitizing and tracking the amount of people in any public transport. It's a simple yet useful device that comes in handy.
Click here to learn more details about the project.
We aim to build a robot that is effective in sanitizing surfaces without putting cleaners in harm's way.
Click here to learn more details about the project.
About M5Stack
M5Stack is a technology company based in Shenzhen China, specializing In the design, development and production of IoT development toolkits and solutions.
We are committed to providing fully functional, customizable and cost-effective open source IoT development toolkits and easy programming platform “UIFlow” and AIoT solutions for smart city, smart agriculture, commercial purpose, industry 4.0, robotics and STEAM education.
M5Stack is on a mission to “Quick & Easy IoT development”, with the easy-to-develop devices and solutions, we can bridge the gap between development and end product, thus, to make creative dreams a reality!
You’re wild about M5Stack products and your camera. Now combine your passions by entering the M5Stack Photography Awards 2021! You could win fantastic prizes. Winning work will be featured in the printed online M5Stack Photo Album "Special Edition All About M5Stack Photography Awards 2021". It's time to show your own M5Stack devices.
*Start/End Dates
Begins at 12:00 a.m. on Feb. 1st, 2021 (UTC+8)
Ends at 11:59 p.m. on Mar. 31st, 2021 (UTC+8)
*Rules
1.Submit your photos on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram with hashtag #M5StackPhotographyAwards2021 and @M5Stack.
2.Simply create a post with an explanatory caption, written in English only, include a short story to your photo, and describe what M5Stack products you capture.
3.Winners might be asked to provide higher resolution images for publication or display purposes related to the award.
Your photos submitted should be taken at the highest resolution possible. (Any equipment can be used)
M5Stack has the right of use for works submitted to this contest. The works can be used on M5Stack's media channels, including but not limited to the M5Stack official website, M5Stack store, M5Stack Forum, etc. Contestants must guarantee the authenticity and originality of all submissions.
*Prizes
*Judges
All photo entries will be judged by M5stack Team. Photo entries will be judged based on artistic, aesthetic value, quality, creativity, background story. Winners will be revealed online in Apr. 8th, 2021.
ESP32 PSRAM TIMER CAMERA FISHEYE (3MP OV3660)
If you have any questions, please feel free to INQUIRY.
About M5Stack
M5Stack is a technology company based in Shenzhen China, specializing In the design, development and production of IoT development toolkits and solutions.
We are committed to providing fully functional, customizable and cost-effective open source IoT development toolkits and easy programming platform “UIFlow” and AIoT solutions for smart city, smart agriculture, commercial purpose, industry 4.0, robotics and STEAM education.
M5Stack is on a mission to “Quick & Easy IoT development”, with the easy-to-develop devices and solutions, we can bridge the gap between development and end product, thus, to make creative dreams a reality!
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Want to get the latest M5Stack New Year RFID Card Set? Welcome to join the M5Stack Customer Survey 2021 to share your insight.
Ends on Jan. 31, 2021
We will choose 15 lucky users at random on Feb.2, 2021!
Click here to enter!
Thank you for taking the time to complete our online survey. We truly value the information you have provided.
The end of 2020 is coming up fast so it's the time of the year that calls for having a reflection of the year.
Here are 10 Top-Selling M5Stack products in 2020.
M5Stack ATOM Matrix, at only 24 x 24mm, is the most compact development board in the M5Stack development kit series. It will be the preferred kit if you need a display or IMU sensor for your project.
M5Stack ATOM Lite is suitable for smart home controllers, alarm, temperature and humidity sensors, smart keys and more.
ESP32 Basic Core IoT Development Kit is still a best-selling product keeping Its original DuPont interface. It greatly meets the geek master's play space and wins the fans. Due to the openness, there are many open source modification projects emerging, it is also easier to DIY. As the most experienced Core, online code resources are very rich.
It is a full-function, and easy for developers to handle new product development on all stages including circuit design, PCB design, software, mold design and production.
M5StickC Development Kit and its compatible HATs are Qualified for AWS IoT.
M5StickC has been a best-seller product since its launch. It is popular not only for its tiny size but also for its low price. As a mini controller, M5StickC has a lot of applications and online code resources. If you're a starter, get started with it.
M5StickC PLUS is the upgraded version of M5StickC, with a larger LCD screen, a more powerful battery, and a built-in buzzer.
The screen of the new module is larger (1.14, instead of 0.96) and has a higher resolution (135×240 pixels instead of 80×160). The new battery has 40 mAh more capacity and a buzzer is now also built-in. Furthermore, the HAT port has an extra GPIO pin (G25), there are 2 additional mounting holes at the back. All other properties have remained the same compared to the previous module.
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M5StickC Plus |
M5StickC |
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Display |
1.14″ ColorLCD, 135×240 |
0.96″ ColorLCD, 80×160 |
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Battery |
120 mAh |
80 mAh |
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Buzzer |
Yes |
No |
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8-pin HAT port |
G0, G25/G36, G26, G32, G33 |
G0, G36, G26, G32, G33 |
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Mounting holes |
Yes |
No |
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Microcontroller |
ESP32-Pico Wifi/Bluetooth 4MB |
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Microphone |
SPM1423 |
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Motion sensor |
MPU6886 6-axis gyroscope/accelerometer |
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Realtime Clock |
BM8563 |
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Misc. |
Grove port, 2 buttons, red LED, IR LED, magnet |
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Battery circuit |
AXP192 PMU |
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Programming/charging |
USB-C |
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Dimensions |
48.2 x 25.5 x 13.7 mm |
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M5Stack GREY Kit is one of the M5Stack development kit series, which is an upgrade from the Basic kits. In comparison, Grey kit provides an extra IMU sensor, BMM150 + MPU6886. With a IMU posture sensor, there are a lot of situations which you can apply this kit to: detecting acceleration, angulation, and trajectory. You can make relative products like sports data collectors, 3D remote gesture controllers and more based on the above functions.
M5Stack Timer Camera series is the upgraded version of ESP32 Camera modules, with Wake Timers, Ultra-Low Power Consumption and 3MP Camera features. It is a good solution to take pictures in timelapse every x seconds/minutes/hour, or monitor rooms.
Here’s why this item keeps selling out: The M5Stack CORE2 is the first M5Stack device with the touch-enabled display. It’s confirmed to have better features, which suits for the various IoT applications. M5Stack CORE2 features a compact case with a width of 54 mm and a depth of 54 mm that can be stacked, and the functions can be expanded by connecting optional modules such as a motor. Battery capacity also increased from 150mAh to 390mAh. In addition to the function to notify the remaining battery level with LED, it is equipped with a vibration function and so on.
M5Stack ATOM ECHO is a tiny programmable smart speaker. Its design is based on the M5Stack ATOM series of products. The slim design has a dimension of 24×24 and is 17mm in height. Its premium finish gives it a professional look and makes it easy to carry anywhere.
ENV II is an environment sensor which can sense temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure. It is built with SHT30 and BMP280 sensors and is programmed over I2C.
SHT30 is a digital temperature and humidity sensor with high precision and low power consumption.
BMP280 is an absolute barometric pressure sensor that is specially designed for mobile applications. It offers the highest flexibility to optimize the device regarding power consumption, resolution and filter performance.
M5Stack COM.X is a series of modules which can be stackable with M5Stack CORE device to implement expansion features.
ToF is a popular sensor to measure distances. Compared with general ultrasonic sensors, it is not affected by the object material. There is a better performance in sensitivity and tolerance. It can be used to implement obstacle avoidance and measuring distances.
2020 has been a challenge to us all - Hope as 2021 comes we will now see a light at the end of the tunnel.
We are thrilled to announce that we partner with AWS.
The AWS IoT EduKit-A prescriptive learning program that makes it easy to learn how to build IoT solutions using AWS services. It comes equipped with a Microchip ATECC608A Trust&GO secure element, in addition to the existing features of the standard M5Stack Core2 and M5GO Bottom2.
AWS introduces AWS IoT EduKit, an easy way to learn to build IoT applications using AWS services through a prescriptive learning program. AWS IoT EduKit helps developers – from students to experienced engineers and professionals – receive hands-on experience building end-to-end IoT applications by combining a reference hardware kit with a set of easy to follow guides and example code. To learn more, please visit AWS IoT Edukit.
Developers can get started by purchasing the reference hardware kit from M5Stack, an AWS partner. The reference hardware kit includes a touch screen for controls, and commonly used IoT sensors including temperature, accelerometer, gyro, and mic. The kit is powered by an Espressif ESP32 micro-controller, and includes a security chip from Microchip for maintaining hardware root of trust. The reference hardware kit supports FreeRTOS, Arduino, and MicroPython—allowing developers to select their preferred software framework for their IoT applications. To purchase your reference hardware kit visit Amazon.com or the M5Stack store.
Once you receive the hardware kit, access the getting started guide and follow the steps to install the Espressif RainMaker Mobile App on your phone. The Espressif RainMaker Mobile App will allow you to control the AWS IoT EduKit reference hardware and connect to AWS IoT. Next, you can select from a list of free projects available on AWS IoT EduKit's website. Start with building a basic connected home application and progress over time to running a machine learning model with Amazon SageMaker Autopilot or building a Voice Assisted Smart Home application with Alexa Voice Service Integration for AWS IoT (AFI).
To learn more, visit the AWS IoT Edukit.
