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Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi with ATWINC1500
Created by lady ada
Last updated on 2016-09-21 10:40:09 PM UTC
Guide Contents
Guide Contents
Overview
Pinouts
Power Pins
Logic pins
WiFi Module & LEDs
Other Pins!
Assembly
Header Options!
Soldering in Plain Headers
Prepare the header strip:
Add the breakout board:
And Solder!
Soldering on Female Header
Tape In Place
Flip & Tack Solder
And Solder!
Power Management
Battery + USB Power
Power supplies
Measuring Battery
ENable pin
Power Usage & Saving with WiFi
Arduino IDE Setup
https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
Using with Arduino IDE
Install SAMD Support
Install Adafruit SAMD
Install Drivers (Windows Only)
Blink
Sucessful Upload
Compilation Issues
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Manually bootloading
Ubuntu & Linux Issue Fix
Using the WiFi Module
Install the Library
Check Connections & Version
Scanning WiFi
Connect & Read Webpage
Creating an Access Point + Webserver
Updating SSL Certificates
Command Line Usage
Windows
Mac OS X (Command Line) Usage
GUI Usage
Manually Adding Certificates
Certicate Format
Adapting Sketches to M0
Analog References
Pin Outputs & Pullups
Serial vs SerialUSB
AnalogWrite / PWM
Missing header files
Bootloader Launching
Aligned Memory Access
Floating Point Conversion
How Much RAM Available?
Storing data in FLASH
HELP!
Downloads
Datasheets & Files
Schematic
Fabrication Print
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Overview
Feather is the new development board from Adafruit, and like its namesake it is thin, light, and lets you fly! We designed Feather to be a new standard for portable microcontroller cores.
This is the Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi w/ATWINC1500 - our take on an 'all-in-one' Arduino-compatible + high speed, reliable WiFi with built in USB and battery charging. Its an Adafruit Feather M0 with a WiFi module (http://adafru.it/2999) , ready to rock! We have other boards in the Feather family, check'em out here (http://adafru.it/l7B) .
Connect your Feather to the Internet with this fine new FCC-certified WiFi module from Atmel. This 802.11bgncapable WiFi module is the best new thing for networking your devices, with built-in low-power management capabilites, Soft-AP, SSL support and rock solid performance. We were running our adafruit.io MQTT demo for a full weekend straight with no hiccups (it would have run longer but we had to go to work, so we unplugged it). This module is very fast & easy to use in comparison to other WiFi modules we've used in the past.
This module works with 802.11b, g, or n networks & supports WEP, WPA and WPA2 encryption. You can connect to your own WiFi networks or create your own with "Soft AP" mode, where it becomes its own access point (we have an example of it creating a webserver that you can then control the Arduino's pins). You can clock it as fast as
12MHz for speedy, reliable packet streaming. And scanning/connecting to networks is very fast, just a second or two.
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You might be wondering why use this when you can get a HUZZAH Feather?
(http://adafru.it/2821) Well, you get
A highly-capable Cortex M0+ processor with ton more I/O pins, lots of 12-bit ADCs, a 10-bit DAC, 6 total
SERCOMs that can each do SPI, I2C or UART (3 are used by the existing interfaces, leaving you 3), plenty of timers, PWMs, DMA, native USB, and more ( check out the Datasheet (http://adafru.it/l3e) )
The ATWINC has much lower power usage, about 12mA for the WINC & 10mA for the ATSAMD21 with autopowermanagement on for the WiFi and no power management for the ARM. With manual power management, you can get the WiFi module to down to ~2mA by putting it to sleep. This is compared to the ESP's ~70mA average current draw, and whose deep sleep mode requires a WDT reset.
We also found that we could stream more reliably (less 'bursty') with the ATWINC, although altogether the
ESP has higher throughput.
You also dont have to 'yield' all the time to the WiFi core, since its a separate chip. You get full reign of the processor and timing
Of course, both WiFi-capable Feathers have their strengths and tradeoffs, & we love both equally!
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At the Feather M0's heart is an ATSAMD21G18 ARM Cortex M0 processor, clocked at 48 MHz and at 3.3V logic, the same one used in the new Arduino Zero (http://adafru.it/2843) . This chip has a whopping 256K of FLASH (8x more than the Atmega328 or 32u4) and 32K of RAM (16x as much)! This chip comes with built in USB so it has
USB-to-Serial program & debug capability built in with no need for an FTDI-like chip. For advanced users who are comfortable with ASF, the SWDIO/SWCLK pins are available on the bottom, and when connected to a CMSIS-DAP debugger can be used to use Atmel Studio for debugging.
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To make it easy to use for portable projects, we added a connector for any of our 3.7V Lithium polymer batteries and built in battery charging. You don't need to use a battery, it will run just fine straight from the micro USB connector. But, if you do have a battery, you can take it on the go, then plug in the USB to recharge. The Feather will automatically switch over to USB power when its available. We also tied the battery through a divider to an analog pin, so you can measure and monitor the battery voltage to detect when you need a recharge.
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Here's some handy specs! Like all Feather M0's you get:
Measures 2.1" x 0.9" x 0.3" (53.65mm x 23mm x 8mm) without headers soldered in. Note it is 0.1" longer than most Feathers
Light as a (large?) feather - 6.1 grams
ATSAMD21G18 @ 48MHz with 3.3V logic/power
256KB FLASH, 32KB SRAM, No EEPROM
3.3V regulator (AP2112K-3.3) with 600mA peak current output, WiFi can draw 300mA peak during xmit
USB native support, comes with USB bootloader and serial port debugging
You also get tons of pins - 20 GPIO pins
Hardware Serial, hardware I2C, hardware SPI support
8 x PWM pins
10 x analog inputs
1 x analog output
Built in 200mA lipoly charger with charging status indicator LED
Pin #13 red LED for general purpose blinking
Power/enable pin
4 mounting holes
Reset button
Comes fully assembled and tested, with a USB bootloader that lets you quickly use it with the Arduino IDE. We also toss in some header so you can solder it in and plug into a solderless breadboard.
Lipoly battery (http://adafru.it/e0v) and MicroUSB cable (http://adafru.it/aM5)
not included (but we do have lots of options in the shop if you'd like!)
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Pinouts
The Feather M0 Adalogger is chock-full of microcontroller goodness. There's also a lot of pins and ports. We'll take you a tour of them now!
Power Pins
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GND - this is the common ground for all power and logic
BAT - this is the positive voltage to/from the JST jack for the optional Lipoly battery
USB - this is the positive voltage to/from the micro USB jack if connected
EN - this is the 3.3V regulator's enable pin. It's pulled up, so connect to ground to disable the 3.3V regulator
3V - this is the output from the 3.3V regulator, it can supply 600mA peak
Logic pins
This is the general purpose I/O pin set for the microcontroller.
All logic is 3.3V
All pins can do PWM output
All pins can be interrupt inputs
#0 / RX - GPIO #0, also receive (input) pin for Serial1 (hardware UART), also can be analog input
#1 / TX - GPIO #1, also transmit (output) pin for Serial1, also can be analog input
#20 / SDA - GPIO #20, also the I2C (Wire) data pin. There's no pull up on this pin by default so when using with I2C, you may need a 2.2K-10K pullup.
#21 / SCL - GPIO #21, also the I2C (Wire) clock pin. There's no pull up on this pin by default so when using with I2C, you may need a 2.2K-10K pullup.
#5 - GPIO #5
#6 - GPIO #6
#9 - GPIO #9, also analog input A7. This analog input is connected to a voltage divider for the lipoly battery so be aware that this pin naturally 'sits' at around 2VDC due to the resistor divider
#10 - GPIO #10
#11 - GPIO #11
#12 - GPIO #12
#13 - GPIO #13 and is connected to the red LED next to the USB jack
A0 - This pin is analog input A0 but is also an analog output due to having a DAC (digital-to-analog converter).
You can set the raw voltage to anything from 0 to 3.3V, unlike PWM outputs this is a true analog output
A1 thru A5 - These are each analog input as well as digital I/O pins.
SCK/MOSI/MISO (GPIO 24/23/22)- These are the hardware SPI pins, you can use them as everyday GPIO pins (but recommend keeping them free as they are best used for hardware SPI connections for high speed)
WiFi Module & LEDs
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Since not all pins can be brought out to breakouts, due to the small size of the Feather, we use these to control the
WiFi module
#2 - used as the ENable pin for the WiFi module, by default pulled down low, set HIGH to enable WiFi
#4 - used as the Reset pin for the WiFi module, controlled by the library
#7 - used as the IRQ interrupt request pin for the WiFi module, controlled by the library
#8 - used as the Chip Select pin for the WiFi module, used to select it for SPI data transfer
MOSI / MISO /SCK - the SPI pins are also used for WiFi module communication
Green LED - the top LED, in green, will light when the module has connected to an SSID
Yellow LED - the bottom LED, in yellow, will blink during data transfer
Other Pins!
RST - this is the Reset pin, tie to ground to manually reset the AVR, as well as launch the bootloader manually
ARef - the analog reference pin. Normally the reference voltage is the same as the chip logic voltage (3.3V) but if you need an alternative analog reference, connect it to this pin and select the external AREF in your firmware. Can't go higher than 3.3V!
Wake - connected to the Wake pin on the WiFi module, not used at this time but it's there if you want it
SWCLK & SWDIO - These pads on the bottom are used to program the chip. They can also be connected to an
SWD debugger.
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Assembly
We ship Feathers fully tested but without headers attached - this gives you the most flexibility on choosing how to use and configure your Feather
Header Options!
Before you go gung-ho on soldering, there's a few options to consider!
The first option is soldering in plain male headers, this lets you plug in the Feather into a solderless breadboard
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Another option is to go with socket female headers. This won't let you plug the Feather into a breadboard but it will let you attach featherwings very easily
We also have 'slim' versions of the female headers, that are a little shorter and give a more compact shape
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Finally, there's the "Stacking Header" option. This one is sort of the best-of-both-worlds. You get the ability to plug into a solderless breadboard and plug a featherwing on top. But its a little bulky
Soldering in Plain Headers
Prepare the header strip:
Cut the strip to length if necessary. It will be easier to solder if you insert it into a breadboard -
long pins down
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Add the breakout board:
Place the breakout board over the pins so that the short pins poke through the breakout pads
And Solder!
Be sure to solder all pins for reliable electrical contact.
(For tips on soldering, be sure to check out our Guide to
Excellent Soldering
(http://adafru.it/aTk)
).
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Solder the other strip as well.
You're done! Check your solder joints visually and continue onto the next steps
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Soldering on Female Header
Tape In Place
For sockets you'll want to tape them in place so when you flip over the board they don't fall out
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Flip & Tack Solder
After flipping over, solder one or two points on each strip, to 'tack' the header in place
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And Solder!
Be sure to solder all pins for reliable electrical contact.
(For tips on soldering, be sure to check out our Guide to
Excellent Soldering (http://adafru.it/aTk) ).
You're done! Check your solder joints visually and continue onto the next steps
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Power Management
Battery + USB Power
We wanted to make the Feather easy to power both when connected to a computer as well as via battery. There's
two ways to power a Feather. You can connect with a MicroUSB cable (just plug into the jack) and the Feather will regulate the 5V USB down to 3.3V. You can also connect a 4.2/3.7V Lithium Polymer (Lipo/Lipoly) or Lithium Ion
(LiIon) battery to the JST jack. This will let the Feather run on a rechargable battery.
When the USB power is powered, it will automatically switch over to USB for power, as well as start charging the battery (if
attached) at 200mA. This happens 'hotswap' style so you can always keep the Lipoly connected as a 'backup' power that will only get used when USB power is lost.
The JST connector polarity is matched to Adafruit LiPoly batteries. Using wrong polarity batteries can destroy your
Feather
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The above shows the Micro USB jack (left), Lipoly JST jack (top left), as well as the 3.3V regulator and changeover diode (just to the right of the JST jack) and the Lipoly charging circuitry (to the right of the Reset button). There's also a
CHG LED, which will light up while the battery is charging. This LED might also flicker if the battery is not connected.
Power supplies
You have a lot of power supply options here! We bring out the BAT pin, which is tied to the lipoly JST connector, as well as
USB which is the +5V from USB if connected. We also have the 3V pin which has the output from the 3.3V
regulator. We use a 600mA peak AP2112K-33. While you can get 600mA from it, you can't do it continuously from
5V as it will overheat the regulator. It's fine for, say, powering the attached WiFi chip or XBee radio though, since the current draw is 'spiky' & sporadic.
Measuring Battery
If you're running off of a battery, chances are you wanna know what the voltage is at! That way you can tell when the battery needs recharging. Lipoly batteries are 'maxed out' at 4.2V and stick around 3.7V for much of the battery life, then slowly sink down to 3.2V or so before the protection circuitry cuts it off. By measuring the voltage you can quickly tell when you're heading below 3.7V
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A7). You can read this pin's voltage, then double it, to get the battery voltage.
#define VBATPIN A7 float measuredvbat = analogRead(VBATPIN); measuredvbat *= 2; // we divided by 2, so multiply back measuredvbat *= 3.3; // Multiply by 3.3V, our reference voltage measuredvbat /= 1024; // convert to voltage
Serial.print("VBat: " ); Serial.println(measuredvbat);
ENable pin
If you'd like to turn off the 3.3V regulator, you can do that with the EN(able) pin. Simply tie this pin to Ground and it will disable the 3V regulator. The BAT and USB pins will still be powered
Power Usage & Saving with WiFi
WiFi is a very power-hungry protocol. During transmit and SSID association, you'll see high power usages. For example, here is an MQTT demo running where it connects to the WPA SSID and then sents a packet every 5 seconds or so:
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You can see the chip launch at about 1.5 seconds, then turn on the WiFi and at about 2s make the SSID connection and MQTT connection. The average current is about 100ms afterwards, and a packet spikes up to ~130mA at the 7 second mark.
100mA is still quite a bit, you can very easily reduce this by letting the WINC1500 manage its own power:
WiFi.setSleepMode(M2M_PS_H_AUTOMATIC, 1); // go into power save mode when possible!
When this line is added, it lets the WINC1500 know that when nothings going on, shut down unneeded parts. You dont have to manage the power modes, and the power will drop down nearly instantly to about 22mA average
(there's still spikes during transmit of course)
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Note that 10mA or so is for the ATSAMD chip, so that means you've got ~12mA for the WiFi module.
If you want ultra-low power you can manage the WINC1500 module your own with
WiFi.setSleepMode(M2M_PS_MANUAL, 1);
And then when you want it to go to sleep call:
WiFi.requestSleep(sleeptimeinmilliseconds)
With this mode, you can get much much lower power when you call the requestSleepmode (basically 1-2mA) and still have an active live WiFi connection...but, when not actively sleeping the power usage seems higher (see that spikey part between seconds 3 and 8.5)
A mix of the two may give you the best performance. And don't forget that the SAMD21 is going to draw 10mA so put the main chip to sleep too if you want to get to very low power sleep modes!
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Arduino IDE Setup
The first thing you will need to do is to download the latest release of the Arduino IDE. You will need to be using
version 1.6.4 or higher for this guide.
Arduino IDE v1.6.4+ Download http://adafru.it/f1P
After you have downloaded and installed
v1.6.4, you will need to start the IDE and navigate to the Preferences menu. You can access it from the
File menu in Windows or Linux, or the Arduino menu on OS X.
A dialog will pop up just like the one shown below.
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We will be adding a URL to the new Additional Boards Manager URLs option. The list of URLs is comma separated, and you will only have to add each URL once. New Adafruit boards and updates to existing boards will automatically be picked up by the Board Manager each time it is opened. The URLs point to index files that the
Board Manager uses to build the list of available & installed boards.
IDE wiki (http://adafru.it/f7U) . We will only need to add one URL to the IDE in this example, but you can add
multiple URLS by separating them with commas. Copy and paste the link below into the Additional Boards
Manager URLs option in the Arduino IDE preferences.
https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
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Here's a short description of each of the Adafruit supplied packages that will be available in the Board Manager when you add the URL:
Adafruit AVR Boards - Includes support for Flora, Gemma, Feather 32u4, Trinket, & Trinket Pro.
Adafruit SAMD Boards - Includes support for Feather M0
Arduino Leonardo & Micro MIDI-USB - This adds MIDI over USB support for the Flora, Feather 32u4, Micro and Leonardo using the arcore project (http://adafru.it/eSI) .
If you have multiple boards you want to support, say ESP8266 and Adafruit, have both URLs in the text box separated by a comma (,)
Once done click
OK to save the new preference settings. Next we will look at installing boards with the Board
Manager.
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Using with Arduino IDE
Since the Feather M0 uses an ATSAMD21 chip running at 48 MHz, you can pretty easily get it working with the
Arduino IDE. Most libraries (including the popular ones like NeoPixels and display) will work with the M0, especially devices & sensors that use i2c or SPI.
Manager by navigating to the Tools->Board menu.
Once the Board Manager opens, click on the category drop down menu on the top left hand side of the window and select
Contributed. You will then be able to select and install the boards supplied by the URLs added to the prefrences.
Install SAMD Support
First up, install the Arduino SAMD Boards version 1.6.2 or later
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Install Adafruit SAMD
Next you can install the Adafruit SAMD package to add the board file definitions
Even though in theory you don't need to - I recommend rebooting the IDE
Quit and reopen the Arduino IDE to ensure that all of the boards are properly installed. You should now be able to select and upload to the new boards listed in the Tools->Board menu.
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Install Drivers (Windows Only)
When you plug in the Feather, you'll need to possibly install a driver
Click below to download our Driver Installer
Download Adafruit Driver Installer http://adafru.it/mai
Download and run the installer
Run the installer! Since we bundle the SiLabs and FTDI drivers as well, you'll need to click through the license
Select which drivers you want to install:
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Click Install to do the installin'
Blink
Now you can upload your first blink sketch!
Plug in the Feather M0 and wait for it to be recognized by the OS (just takes a few seconds). It will create a serial/COM port, you can now select it from the dropdown, it'll even be 'indicated' as Feather M0!
Now load up the Blink example
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// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board void setup() {
// initialize digital pin 13 as an output.
}
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
// the loop function runs over and over again forever void loop() {
digitalWrite(13, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(1000); // wait for a second
digitalWrite(13, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
}
delay(1000); // wait for a second
Sucessful Upload
If you have a successful upload, you'll get a bunch of red text that tells you that the device was found and it was programmed, verified & reset
Compilation Issues
If you get an alert that looks like
Cannot run program "{runtime.tools.arm-none-eabi-gcc.path}\bin\arm-non-eabi-g++"
Make sure you have installed the Arduino SAMD boards package, you need both Arduino & Adafruit SAMD board packages
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Manually bootloading
If you ever get in a 'weird' spot with the bootloader, or you have uploaded code that crashes and doesn't auto-reboot into the bootloader, click the RST button twice (like a double-click)to get back into the bootloader.
The red LED will pulse, so you know that its in bootloader mode.
Once it is in bootloader mode, you can select the newly created COM/Serial port and re-try uploading.
You may need to go back and reselect the 'normal' USB serial port next time you want to use the normal upload.
Ubuntu & Linux Issue Fix
Note if you're using Ubuntu 15.04 (or perhaps other more recent Linux distributions) there is an issue with the modem manager service which causes the Bluefruit LE micro to be difficult to program. If you run into errors like
"device or resource busy", "bad file descriptor", or "port is busy" when attempting to program then you are hitting this issue.
(http://adafru.it/fP6)
The fix for this issue is to make sure Adafruit's custom udev rules are applied to your system. One of these rules is made to configure modem manager not to touch the Feather board and will fix the programming difficulty issue.
Follow the steps for installing Adafruit's udev rules on this page.
(http://adafru.it/iOE)
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Using the WiFi Module
Once you have your Feather working, you probably want to rock out with some Wireless connectivity. Luckily, Atmel
& Arduino have written a great library for supporting the WINC1500
Install the Library
We will start by installing the official Arduino WiFi101 library (http://adafru.it/kUF) .
We want the latest version so visit the Library Manager
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Type in wifi101 and when the library comes up, click
Install or Update to make sure its the most recent one!
Libraries (http://adafru.it/aYM) !
Restart the Arduino IDE.
You may need to use Arduino 1.6.5 or later
Check Connections & Version
Before we start, its important to verify you have the right setup & firmware version.
Load up the WiFi101->CheckWifi101Firmware sketch
Note that to use the official Arduino WiFi101 Library, we must configure it to use the pins specific to the
ATWINC1500 Feather. With each example sketch, you'll need to add WiFi.setPins(8,7,4,2); to the top of the setup function!
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//Configure pins for Adafruit ATWINC1500 Feather
WiFi.setPins(8,7,4,2);
Like so:
Upload to your Arduino and open up the Serial Console at 9600 baud:
You should see that the firmware is 19.4.4
If you have version 19.3 or less, the firmware is too old
If you get not response, the firmware is either waaay to old, or something is amiss with your wiring!
Scanning WiFi
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Now that you have the right firmware version, lets scan for network!
Run the WiFi101->ScanNetworks example to see a list of available visible networks
Don't forget to add WiFi.setPins(8,7,4,2) at the top of setup()
Connect & Read Webpage
OK finally you get to connect and read some data!
Open up the
WiFi101->WiFiWebClient example
Edit the ssid and pass variables to contain your network and password
Add the following lines at the top of setup()
//Configure pins for Adafruit ATWINC1500 Feather
WiFi.setPins(8,7,4,2);
It will connect to the website in
server and read the webpage manually:
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Creating an Access Point + Webserver
This demo will let you create a new WiFi AP with the Feather M0 which you can connect to from any WiFi capable device. It will also create a Server so you can connect and turn on/off the onboard LED
Launch the WiFi101->AP_SimpleWebServer example
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You can change the SSID & LED (
LED_BUILTIN
is #13, the onboard feather LED)
Upload and open up the serial console to start the AP
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Your computer will see the new AP and you should connect to it
Back over at the serial console, the Feather will have started up a server, it will print out the IP address and instructions
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Go to the IP address and you will see the mini webpage, click on the links to turn on/off the LED
In the serial console you will see the data received from the webbrowser client
That's it! pretty easy, huh? There's other examples you can try such as server mode, UDP data transmission & SSL
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Updating SSL Certificates
Do not use the updater to update the WINC1500 firmware, you could brick it. Only use it for updating SSL certs
If you're trying to connect to a computer or service via SSL and the connection is failing, you may need to update the certificates built into the WINC1500. By default it comes with many of the most popular SSL certificates but you may bump into a site that requires one that isnt included.
Its quite easy to update the certificates, you'll need to upload some code and run the uploaders but it only has to happen once
Start out by uploading the
FirmwareUpdater sketch from Adafruit_WINC1500 update the pins as necessary, we have the default for use with the Feather M0 WINC1500
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and upload it!
After uploading be sure to note what is the name of the COM or Serial port for the Arduino Zero or Feather...You'll need this for the next step
Now download or clone the WiFi101 Firmware Updater repository (http://adafru.it/leT) from github, you can just click here to grab the latest Zip
Download WiFi101 Firmware Updater http://adafru.it/leU
Command Line Usage
Windows
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Uncompress it on your desktop. Now use powershell, command or terminal to cd to the uncompressed directory and run
winc1500-uploader --port serialport
for example, on windows,
winc1500-uploader --port COM3
certs to upload all the certificates in the certs directory
Mac OS X (Command Line) Usage
With Mac, you can use command line, its essentially the same as above except the serial port will be something like
/dev/cu.usbserialnnnn You can figure it out by running ls /dev/cu.* to list all serial devices, ignore the Bluetooth modem interfaces
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GUI Usage
You can also use the GUI which is nice and will also let you fetch the certificate and upload it directly. If you don't need any particular site's cert just put in www.google.com
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Manually Adding Certificates
You can upload other certificates, make sure they are in DER format (binary, not ascii!) and end the name with .cer
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To figure out what certificate you need, go to the page you're trying to connect to, using your browser. Then click on the lock (it may be in a different location) to make sure you're using
https and its secured. Then click More
Information
When you get the details popup, click on
View Certificate
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Almost done, once you see the view of the certificate, click on
Details
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Finally, you can see the Root Certificate, its at the top of Certificate Hierarchy now click Export
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and export/save it to the certs directory, in DER format
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Certicate Format
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Instead, make sure its in binary format like this (it should be a jumble of characters)
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What SSL/TLS support is available with the WINC1500?
Officially Atmel lists TLS 1.0 & 1.1, however we have noticed that the firmwares shipping on boards today seem to also support TLS 1.2 (verified by checking the results of www.howsmyssl.com
(http://adafru.it/mgf) ).
The supported ciphers are:
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
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Adapting Sketches to M0
will work but here's a few things we noticed!
Analog References
If you'd like to use the
ARef pin for a non-3.3V analog reference, the code to use is analogReference(AR_EXTERNAL)
(it's
AR_EXTERNAL not EXTERNAL)
Pin Outputs & Pullups
The old-style way of turning on a pin as an input with a pullup is to use pinMode(pin, INPUT) digitalWrite(pin, HIGH)
This is because the pullup-selection register is the same as the output-selection register.
For the M0, you can't do this anymore! Instead, use pinMode(pin, INPUT_PULLUP) which has the benefit of being backwards compatible with AVR.
Serial vs SerialUSB
99.9% of your existing Arduino sketches use
Serial.print to debug and give output. For the Official Arduino
SAMD/M0 core, this goes to the Serial5 port, which isn't exposed on the Feather. The USB port for the Official
Arduino M0 core, is called SerialUSB instead.
In the Adafruit M0 Core, we fixed it so that Serial goes to USB when you use a Feather M0 so it will automatically work just fine.
However, on the off chance you are using the official Arduino SAMD core & you want your Serial prints and reads to use the USB port, use
SerialUSB instead of Serial in your sketch
If you have existing sketches and code and you want them to work with the M0 without a huge find-replace, put
#if defined(ARDUINO_SAMD_ZERO) && defined(SERIAL_PORT_USBVIRTUAL)
// Required for Serial on Zero based boards
#define Serial
SERIAL_PORT_USBVIRTUAL
#endif
right above the first function definition in your code. For example:
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AnalogWrite / PWM
We've noticed that some PWM outputs are not working with the current SAMD core, its something that is being worked on!
Missing header files
there might be code that uses libraries that are not supported by the M0 core. For example if you have a line with
#include <util/delay.h> you'll get an error that says fatal error: util/delay.h: No such file or directory
#include <util/delay.h>
^ compilation terminated.
Error compiling.
In which case you can simply locate where the line is (the error will give you the file name and line number) and
'wrap it' with #ifdef's so it looks like:
#if !defined(ARDUINO_ARCH_SAM) && !defined(ARDUINO_ARCH_SAMD) && !defined(ESP8266) && !defined(ARDUINO_ARCH_STM32F2)
#include <util/delay.h>
#endif
The above will also make sure that header file isn't included for other architectures
If the #include is in the arduino sketch itself, you can try just removing the line.
Bootloader Launching
For most other AVRs, clicking
reset while plugged into USB will launch the bootloader manually, the bootloader will time out after a few seconds. For the M0, you'll need to double click the button. You will see a pulsing red LED to let you know you're in bootloader mode. Once in that mode, it wont time out! Click reset again if you want to go back to launching code
Aligned Memory Access
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This is a little less likely to happen to you but it happened to me! If you're used to 8-bit platforms, you can do this nice thing where you can typecast variables around. e.g.
uint8_t mybuffer[4]; float f = (float)mybuffer;
You can't be guaranteed that this will work on a 32-bit platform because
mybuffer might not be aligned to a 2 or 4byte boundary. The ARM Cortex-M0 can only directly access data on 16-bit boundaries (every 2 or 4 bytes). Trying to access an odd-boundary byte (on a 1 or 3 byte location) will cause a Hard Fault and stop the MCU. Thankfully, there's an easy work around ... just use memcpy!
uint8_t mybuffer[4]; float f; memcpy(f, mybuffer, 4)
Floating Point Conversion
Like the AVR Arduinos, the M0 library does not have full support for converting floating point numbers to ASCII strings. Functions like sprintf will not convert floating point. Fortunately, the standard AVR-LIBC library includes the dtostrf function which can handle the conversion for you.
Unfortunately, the M0 run-time library does not have dtostrf. You may see some references to using
<avr/dtostrf.h> to get dtostrf in your code. And while it will compile, it does not work.
Instead, check out this thread to find a working dtostrf function you can include in your code: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=368720.0
(http://adafru.it/lFS)
How Much RAM Available?
The ATSAMD21G18 has 32K of RAM, but you still might need to track it for some reason. You can do so with this handy function: extern "C" char *sbrk(int i);
} int FreeRam () {
char stack_dummy = 0;
return &stack_dummy - sbrk(0);
Thx to http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=365830.msg2542879#msg2542879 (http://adafru.it/m6D) for the tip!
Storing data in FLASH
If you're used to AVR, you've probably used PROGMEM to let the compiler know you'd like to put a variable or string in flash memory to save on RAM. On the ARM, its a little easier, simply add
const before the variable name:
const char str[] = "My very long string";
That string is now in FLASH. You can manipulate the string just like RAM data, the compiler will automatically read from FLASH so you dont need special progmem-knowledgeable functions.
You can verify where data is stored by printing out the address:
Serial.print("Address of str $"); Serial.println((int)&str, HEX);
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If the address is $2000000 or larger, its in SRAM. If the address is between $0000 and $3FFFF Then it is in FLASH
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HELP!
My Feather never shows up as a COM or Serial port in the Arduino IDE
A vast number of Feather 'failures' are due to charge-only USB cables
Seriously, we get upwards of 5 complaints a day that turn out to be due to charge-only cables
Use only a cable that you know is for data syncing
If you have any charge-only cables, cut them in half throw them out. We are serious! They tend to be low quality in general, and will only confuse you and others later, just get a good data+charge USB cable
My Feather M0 won't enumerate anymore and can't be programmed, help!
If something happens and your Feather M0 won't enumerate as a USB serial device, like perhaps you were exploring the ATSAMD21's peripherals and accidentally misconfigured something, don't worry you can try a few things to revive it back to normal.
First try pressing the reset button twice like a mouse double click. The LED should start pulsing red to inform you the chip has entered its bootloader and is waiting a program upload.
The Feather M0 will show up as a new COM port device (if you haven't already installed the Windows drivers, do that!)
Select the new bootloader COM port in the Arduino IDE
Now try uploading a simple blink example from the Arduino IDE to see if that gets the board back into a good state.
If you don't get a pulsing red LED and the board doesn't enumerate as a serial device then something has happened to the bootloader. Unfortunately the best option in this case is to connect to the single-wire debug test points on the back of the board (the SWDIO & SWCLK pads) and manually reprogram the bootloader using a J-Link or ST-Link ARM programmer.
I'm having problems with COM ports and my M0
Theres two COM ports you can have with the M0, one is the user port and one is the bootloader port. They are not the same COM port number!
When you upload a new user program it will come up with a user com port, particularly if you use Serial in your user program.
If you crash your user program, or have a program that halts or otherwise fails, the user com port can disappear.
When the user COM port disappears, Arduino will not be able to automatically start the bootloader and upload new software.
So you will need to help it by performing the double-click to stat the bootloader, then selecting the bootloader COM port for uploading. See above
I don't understand why the COM port disappears, this does not happen on my Arduino UNO!
UNO-type Arduinos have a seperate serial port chip (aka "FTDI chip" or "Prolific PL2303" etc etc) which handles all serial port capability seperately than the main chip. This way if the main chip fails, you can always use the COM port.
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M0 and 32u4-based Arduinos do not have a seperate chip, instead the main processor performs this task for you. It allows for a lower cost, higher power setup...but requires a little more effort since you will need to 'kick' into the bootloader manually once in a while
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Downloads
Datasheets & Files
Atmel Software Programming guide for WINC1500 (http://adafru.it/ldD) - this is for the underlying ASF codebase that is 'wrapped' in Adafruit_WINC1500 but its still very handy reference
ATSAMD21 Datasheet (http://adafru.it/ldE) - Its long, but its a good read
EagleCAD PCB Files on GitHub (http://adafru.it/oeK)
Fritzing object in the Adafruit Fritzing library (http://adafru.it/aP3)
Schematic
Click to enlarge
Fabrication Print
Dimensions in inches
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Table of contents
- 2 Guide Contents
- 4 Overview
- 9 Pinouts
- 9 Power Pins
- 10 Logic pins
- 10 WiFi Module & LEDs
- 11 Other Pins!
- 13 Assembly
- 13 Header Options!
- 15 Soldering in Plain Headers
- 15 Prepare the header strip:
- 16 Add the breakout board:
- 16 And Solder!
- 18 Soldering on Female Header
- 18 Tape In Place
- 19 Flip & Tack Solder
- 20 And Solder!
- 22 Power Management
- 22 Battery + USB Power
- 23 Power supplies
- 23 Measuring Battery
- 24 ENable pin
- 24 Power Usage & Saving with WiFi
- 28 Arduino IDE Setup
- 29 https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
- 31 Using with Arduino IDE
- 31 Install SAMD Support
- 32 Install Adafruit SAMD
- 33 Install Drivers (Windows Only)
- 34 Blink
- 35 Sucessful Upload
- 35 Compilation Issues
- 36 Manually bootloading
- 36 Ubuntu & Linux Issue Fix
- 37 Using the WiFi Module
- 37 Install the Library
- 38 Check Connections & Version
- 39 Scanning WiFi
- 40 Connect & Read Webpage
- 41 Creating an Access Point + Webserver
- 46 Updating SSL Certificates
- 47 Command Line Usage
- 47 Windows
- 48 Mac OS X (Command Line) Usage
- 49 GUI Usage
- 51 Manually Adding Certificates
- 56 Certicate Format
- 59 Adapting Sketches to M0
- 59 Analog References
- 59 Pin Outputs & Pullups
- 59 Serial vs SerialUSB
- 60 AnalogWrite / PWM
- 60 Missing header files
- 60 Bootloader Launching
- 60 Aligned Memory Access
- 61 Floating Point Conversion
- 61 How Much RAM Available?
- 61 Storing data in FLASH
- 63 HELP!
- 65 Downloads
- 65 Datasheets & Files
- 65 Schematic
- 65 Fabrication Print