Matrix - Compact Kit

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Introduction

Matrix-Compact Kit.png
  • The Matrix-Compact Kit is a compact board with various hardware resources, interfaces and ports including user keys, LED, buzzer, ADC, compass, temperature sensor, IR receiver, TFT port and etc. This board can be connected to the NanoPi, NanoPi 2 and Raspberry Pi via its 40 pin header. In addition you can connect other external modules to its GPIOs.

Features

Matrix - Compact Kit has the following onboard resources:

  • 0.9 TFT LCD
  • 3 x tact switch
  • 4 x 5mm LED
  • Buzzer
  • ADC
  • Sliding rheostat
  • 40 pin female connector
  • 4 pin header - I2C interface
  • 4 pin header - UART interface
  • 3 pin double row pin-header - 3.3V and GND
  • 18B20 temperature sensor
  • IR receiver
  • 10 x 3 pin header - 3 x AIO, 7 x DIO (two of them can be configured to PWM and four of them can be configured to SPI)
  • Compass

Dimensional Diagram and Pin Description

  • PCB Dimension(mm):

Matrix-Compact Kit PCB.png

Matrix-Compact_Kit Interface
  • 40 pin female connector's pin description
Pin# Name Pin# Name
1 VDD_SYS_3.3V 2 VDD_5V
3 I2C0_SDA 4 VDD_5V
5 I2C0_SCL 6 DGND
7 GPIOB28 8 UART3_TXD
9 DGND 10 UART3_RXD
11 GPIOB29 12 GPIOB26
13 GPIOB30 14 DGND
15 GPIOB31 16 PWM2
17 VDD_SYS_3.3V 18 GPIOB27
19 SPI0_MOSI 20 DGND
21 SPI0_MISO 22 PWM0
23 SPI0_CLK 24 SPI0_CS
25 DGND 26 PWM1
27 I2C1_SDA 28 I2C1_SCL
29 GPIOC8 30 DGND
31 SPI2_CLK 32 GPIOC28
33 SPI2_CS 34 DGND
35 SPI2_MOSI 36 GPIOC7
37 SPI2_MISO 38 ALIVEGPIO2
39 DGND 40 ALIVEGPIO3
Matrix-Compact_Kit Interface
  • 30 pin header's pin description
Ch# G Ch# V Ch# S
1 GND 2 VDD_5V 3 A1_PCF
4 GND 5 VDD_5V 6 A2_PCF
7 GND 8 VDD_5V 9 A3_PCF
10 GND 11 VDD_5V 12 D1_Pi11
13 GND 14 VDD_5V 15 D2_Pi26
16 GND 17 VDD_5V 18 D3_Pi16
19 GND 20 VDD_5V 21 D4_Pi19
22 GND 23 VDD_5V 24 D5_Pi21
25 GND 26 VDD_5V 27 D6_Pi23
28 GND 29 VDD_5V 30 D7_Pi24
18B20 and IR receiver's interface
  • 18B20 and IR receiver's pin description
Pin# Name Pin# Name Pin# Name
1 VDD_5V 2 DATA 3 GND
1 DATA 2 GND 3 VDD_5V

Download Matrix Source Code

All the matrix modules' code samples are open source. They are maintained on GitHub: https://github.com/friendlyarm/matrix.git
Each branch in this hub contains the matrix modules' code samples for a board that the matrix modules can work with

  • The matrix-nanopi branch contains the matrix modules' code samples for the NanoPi
  • The matrix-nanopi2 branch contains the matrix modules' code samples for the NanoPi 2
  • The matrix-tiny4412 branch contains the matrix modules' code samples for the Tiny4412;
  • The matrix-raspberrypi branch contains the matrix modules' code samples for the RaspberryPi;

Please follow the steps below to get the source code:
Install the git utility on a PC running Ubuntu14.04

$ sudo apt-get install git

Clone the matrix code from GitHub

$ git clone https://github.com/friendlyarm/matrix.git

If this is successful a "matrix" directory will be generated, which will contain all the matrix modules' code samples.

Connect to NanoPi 2

Hardware Connection

Please refer to the following connection diagram to connect the Matrix-Compact_Kit to the NanoPi 2:
Matrix-Compact_Kit_nanopi2

Compile Test Program

Please login the matrix hub and enter the nanopi2 branch

$ cd matrix
$ git checkout nanopi2

Compile the Matrix code

$ make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- clean
$ make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-
$ make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- install

Note: please make sure to install the cross compiler "arm-linux-gcc-4.9.3" on your PC, which is used to compile files for the NanoPi 2.
Generated library files are under the "install/lib" directory. The test program is under the "install/usr/bin" directory. The modules are under the "modules" directory

Copy Test Program

Please insert a TF card which is flashed with Debian to a Linux host and mount its boot and rootfs sections.
We assume the rootfs is mounted to /media/rootfs then please run the following commands to copy the module, library and test program to the card

$ cp modules /media/rootfs/ -r
$ cp install/lib/* /media/rootfs/lib/ -d
$ cp install/usr/bin/* /media/rootfs/usr/bin/

Test LCD

Insert this TF card to your NanoPi 2, power on and run the following commands.

$ cd /modules
$ insmod fbtft_device.ko name=matrix-st7735s gpios=dc:58,reset:63,cs:59
$ sudo FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb-st7735s startx &

"fbtft_device" is the LCD's driver.After it is loaded the LCD will be initialized.
"startx" sets the LCD to the output device. Here is what you should expect:
matrix-cpt_kit_result_lcd

Test AD

Please run the following command to get Channel 0's value:

$ matrix-adc

When you turn the resistor the AD value will be changing. Here is what you should expect:
matrix-cpt_kit_result_ad

Test Compass

Please run the following command to activate the compass:

$ matrix-compass

When you change the module's directon you will get a changing value. Here is what you should expect:
matrix-cpt_kit_result_cps

Test Key

Key CPU GPIO linux ID
KEY1 GPIOC7 71
KEY2 ALIVEGPIO2 162
KEY3 ALIVEGPIO3 163

We took KEY1 as an example. Running the following commands reads its value:

$ cd /sys/class/gpio/
$ echo 71 > export
$ echo in > gpio71/direction
$ cat gpio71/value

After you press KEY1 the value will be 0. After it is released the value will be 1.

Access LED

LED CPU GPIO linux ID
LED1 GPIOC10 74
LED2 GPIOC9 73
LED3 GPIOC11 75
LED4 GPIOC12 76

We took LED1 as an example. Please run the following commands to access LED1:

$ cd /sys/class/gpio/
$ echo 74 > export
$ echo out > gpio74/direction
$ echo 1 > gpio74/value

1 indicates LED on and 0 indicates LED1 off.

Connect to NanoPi

Connect to Tiny4412

Connect to RaspberryPi

Connect to Arduino

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