“IntroductionThe Particle Argon, Boron, and Xenon are Particle IoT dev boards with mesh networking. All the boards are all built around the Nordic nRF52840 SoC and include an ARM Cortex-M4F with 1MB of Flash and 256k of RAM. This chip supports Bluetooth 5 and NFC. The Argon adds WiFi with an ESP32 from Espressif and in this project, how to setup Argon along with controlling LED’s using webpage and Argon is discussed in a detail.
Components Needed
Particle Argon ==> $28
Breadboard ==> $6
LED’s ==>$2
The Argon is a powerful Wi-Fi enabled development kit that can act as either a standalone Wi-Fi endpoint or WiFi enabled gateway for Particle Mesh networks. It is based on the Nordic nRF52840 and has built-in battery charging circuitry so it’s easy to connect a Li-Po and deploy your local network in minutes.
Feature
1. Espressif ESP32-D0WD 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi coprocessor
- On-board 4MB flash for ESP32
- 802.11 b/g/n support
- 802.11 n (2.4 GHz), up to 150 Mbps
2.Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC
- ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz
- 1MB flash, 256KB RAM
- IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps
- Bluetooth 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 Kbps, 125 Kbps
- Supports DSP instructions, HW accelerated Floating Point Unit (FPU) calculations
- ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 Cryptographic and security module
- Up to +8 dBm TX power (down to -20 dBm in 4 dB steps)
- NFC-A tag
3. On-board additional 4MB SPI flash
4. 20 mixed signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
5. Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)
6. Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector
7. JTAG (SWD) Connector
8. RGB status LED
9. Reset and Mode buttons
10. On-board PCB antenna
11. u.FL connector for external antenna
12 Meets the Adafruit Feather specification in dimensions and pin out
13. FCC, CE and IC certified 15. RoHS compliant (lead-free)”