Arduino GIGA WiFi - First Look

[@Dronebotworkshop]

Hi everyone - It's come to my attention that there has been someone masquerading as myself, responding to some comments here with a link to a Telegram chat to win a prize from me. THIS IS A SCAM, I am not holding a contest, nor do I have a Telegram account. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THESE MESSAGES!! It's happening on a lot of my videos, I'm taking steps to remove them manually, but as I have 162 videos, it will take some time. If you do run across a suspicious comment, I would appreciate you letting me know at [e-mail]. Thanks! Bill (The real one!)

[@Arduino]

Thanks for sharing!

[@stanmacdonald1073]

This looks like a nice addition to the quiver: Pi 4, GIGA, ESP32, Pico W and various small footprint RP2040l cover a very broad range of applications and price points. Man it's a great time to be a kid (pushing 70):-)

[@damianbutterworth2434]

I have arduino nema 17 stepper motor automatic blinds in my house lol. I was going down the pico w route but this arduino might bring me back. I do prefer arduino. Us old people have an advantage over young people as we had to program most of the time.

[@alexmauger7033]

If you haven't already, you should try out the Teensy 4.0 or 4.1

[@petevenuti7355]

Im not a retirement fund kid so I got to be really careful with my fixed income... No offense... Just saying I can't afford a selection.. What I want to ask is, can one of these emulate the others? Which one is the most flexible? Especially if I want to use an os.. please don't say pi , too expensive now to get one, but I do want to run software meant for the pi...

[@DavidTLutz]

At 71 myself, I hear you!

[@slimhazard]

In Germany I‘m seeing prices ranging from about €70 to €85. These are very impressive specs for the Arduino family, but it‘s getting to where it‘s more like an SBC than a microcontroller board, both in terms of specs and price point.

[@H0mework]

It's still not as good as an SBC, but official Arduino hardware has never been known as a good value.

[@Dronebotworkshop]

Yes, I had the same feeling regarding the price, factor in the shipping and I paid 100 Canadian dollars for it.

[@lilblackduc7312]

@@Dronebotworkshop I became an "Electronics Junkie" sometime after I was born in 1958. I feel like saying, "You guys just don't know how blessed you are, with all the various toys"! My goodness. Before I came here, I was watching your video on the amazing Raspberry Pi Pico. They're so tiny and space-saving. When I was first learning in late 1970s, soldering up a kit like that could be messy & took up space..Be thankful, learn lots & enjoy what you've got...🇺🇸 😎👍☕

[@Gengh13]

Agree.

[@jstro-hobbytech]

It's not worth the price but it is very cool. I'm in Canada as well. I got 2 teensy 4.1 boards with all the extra ram and such for cheaper. Order straight from pjrc

[@Graham_Wideman]

10:05 The audio jack is actually TRRS, not TRS. Ie: Tip = Left; Ring1 = Right; Ring2 = Mic; Sleave = Ground, according to the schematic. That detail is significant because it means stereo out and mono audio in can be used at the same time. The Mic does not share a connection with one of the output channels. Regardless -- a nice overview of the board!

[@Scrogan]

Sleeve = ground? Isn’t that the less common TRRS standard at this point?

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Jack on giga follows the OMTP standard. Sleeve is ground. Tip - DAC1 (left) Ring 1 - DAC0 (right) Ring 2 - A7 (mic) Sleeve - Ground

[@slobberingdog72]

I love that you have 500K subscribers now. Another quality tutorial.

[@dankramer6029]

Have seen these boards on the market as well as cost. Don't currently need the functionality as the ESP32 covers what I'm doing but it is always good to know what is available and information provided is extremely helpful for possible future projects. Thank you for "breaking the ice."

[@kmatt999]

Thank you, Your videos inspire me to build cool things!

[@hshakarchi]

Note: you should change your network credentials, these are shown in 33:59 !!

[@domainmojo2162]

Hi, African viewer here... I really thoroughly enjoy your videos, and I've learned so much. Thank you! I know you only/mostly work with DC, however, I've got an AC request... I inherited an oil bath from my father-in-law among other heavy duty tools, and although I like the fact it is a vintage, heavy-duty item that will do almost any job and last for generations, it bugs me no end that I'm not able to adjust the amperage to my liking. It's almost legendary in our town since it's welded a lot of the heavy industry's roofs, structures, the ships' hulls, the jetty, and other heavy metal welding- from a well-known boilermaker with a respected reputation, but... I'd like to make the old girl "mine" and personalize it to my liking. As you know- an oil welder has five or six "poles"- each with a different/set amperage, and one is the earth pole. So if you want 50A, you screw your electrode cable to the 50A pole. Then if you want 300A, you screw it onto the 300A pole etc... All this is tedious though, and there are times when I want 60A - 90A for instance - and sometimes lower, but my only options are 50Amps or 100Amps and up to 350A. How can I add an amperage adjuster to this circuit? AC is high current, so I'm not familiar with a regulator/adjuster that one can use here. I won't be able to easily adjust the voltage in order to lower the amperage(or perhaps I can? Just the opposite...), because of the way transformers work, but adding a variable resistive component to the circuit should do the trick. Problem is, I don't know where to do this in the circuit and what component(s) I will need. I'm not familiar with AC resistive components.. Can you (or anyone else) please assist me with these questions, if possible? I'm sure there are countless nr of people with an oil bath that would love such a thing!

[@bunnykiller]

have you checked into variable inductance? Basically its an old core from a large transformer wound with a winding on the center leg and the frame is cut to make an E and an I (EI). The gap between the E and I is adjusted to vary the amperage flow. I made one for a large tesla coil and used #8 THHN at 220 winds for 240VAC at 60A

[@domainmojo2162]

@@bunnykiller Wow! That was quick! 😀 That sounds promising. Seems to do exactly what I want. I also see there are plenty of welders with variable inductors and a few circuit diagrams, so a nice bit of reading up and then seeing an electrician to see how we can implement this. Pricing also doesn't look too bad. I've looked into Rheostats... and jeepers - those things are expensive! Thanks man.

[@domainmojo2162]

@@bunnykiller Thanks again buddy. I found a site where a guy explains how he managed to add this to his welder. I'm also looking at a saturable reactor.

[@andymouse]

C3P0 loves an oil bath ! maybe you could consult him ? 😜😁

[@stanmacdonald1073]

The STM32H747 has 3 x I2S ports and a I2S LP so you should be able to do audio through the proper I/O pins, assuming they are brought out.

[@tzampini]

Hi Bill. Great video as usual. But at 45:20, in the “Read from USB Drive” section, your code seems to have gotten a little corrupted. Line 56 simply says “usb”, and I don’t see the “fread(f, …) line. Anyway, if I’m wrong, please correct me. 😊

[@collinbetten5631]

Oof a little too expensive for my taste. You can get a esp32 with 4g lte for cheaper. I'm looking forward to seeing clones of these going up for sale though!

[@spasticjackson9578]

Does the ESP32 write to usb ?

[@hullinstruments]

Huge fan of Arduino and what they've done for the maker community. A lot of us owe them an awful lot. That being said... this is insane. People need a single board computer that is accessible and affordable, extremely capable and feels a big gap in the market just like the Uno did years ago This is the ultimate Middle ground. Why not make something small like a raspberry pi and charge just as much as this board. Or make something a bit bigger and actually make a really super capable high-speed high connectivity device that can be used in both hobby projects, and in professional settings. Similar to the khadas sbc's or something along those lines. I'm just absolutely flabbergasted and speechless. Shocked and chagrined! I'm amazed this got through the design and long arduous process to being produced... It just seems so insane. (Of course I could be totally wrong and they did tons of research and found a great gap in the market. And these will sell out like raspberry pies have) Technically I'm a hobbyist but I also work in the test equipment and metrology sector. Specializing in hardware-based troubleshooting and calibration of metrology and industrial equipment used in labs and stuff like that. so I'm probably not the best judge when it comes to hobbyist and lower-level professional stuff. But this just seems to hit all of the unnecessary and unwarranted aspects without hitting any of the needed gaps in the market. Hopefully they know exactly what they're doing and I'm just an idiot with bad judgment... But how the hell could the same people who designed and popularized the Uno come up with something like this at this price point.

[@JakobSagatowski]

Great review with many good examples. Thanks!

[@s.stevensmith760]

Sweet!! Thank you for covering this. I gotta get one now.

[@RottnRobbie]

This at 16:16 just caught my eye, and I have to ask - WHAT is the world coming to?!?!? Compilation of the Blink sketch reports: Sketch uses *109416 bytes* (5%) of program storage space ... and Global variables use *47520 bytes* (9%) of dynamic memory... It's the Blink sketch. The _BLINK_ sketch for Pete's sake! It includes no libraries, has a total (excluding comments) of 9 lines of code (2 of which are just closing brackets), and doesn't declare a single variable. The same sketch compiled for an Uno uses only 924 bytes (2%) of program storage space and 9 bytes of dynamic memory (which is reported as 0% of the available memory, because it works out as less than half a percent of the smaller total). Simply changing the board type increases the program size by a factor of more than 100, and RAM usage goes up by a *factor of more than 5,000* . I know there's always going to be some overhead for the Arduino environment, and I accept that it's going to be greater when there's a multi-core processor to deal with, but that's just offensively inefficient!

[@hamradio3716]

Excellent as usual. Thank you ❤

[@andymouse]

I would love to put that sine wave into a spectrum analyser and see how good it is for audio work ...cheers.

[@whitneydesignlabs8738]

Cool! I have been waiting for this video. Biggest question for me is it worth the price, compared to other options. Thank you, Bill!

[@electronics.unmessed]

Very nice introduction of the Giga! Many thanks. 👍👍👍

[@karllaun2427]

Yet another great presentation. I’d like to learn more about JTAG/debugging on the Arduino.

[@jimbooth2010]

Thats is very interesting. I had not heard of this since i almost never use anything but esp32. I use to use a mega, but went to the esp32. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[@tonybloodloss]

What a time to be alive!

[@christopherleadholm6677]

The Arduino Giga was in stock as of yesterday. I got one ordered, Bill!

[@ahmedmoustafa6829]

I appreciate if you make a video for Teensy 4.1 since it has very powerful processor and costs much less that the GIGA board.

[@kejung1]

Again, another fantastic video. Many thanks! The day I got my giga, I connected it to my Ubuntu machine, no luck. Got the dfu error. Switched to my mac, no luck. same/similar errors. I thought I had somehow killed it. I followed your steps today (Fixing Linux Error), again no luck with Ubuntu, but perfect on the Mac!?! Fine by me! Looking forward to how the Giga can be used! Again, Thanks!!

[@kellyblack4897]

I was thrilled to see I’m not the only old school Unix head that still uses the Pine interface (nano)

[@wolfganggosejacob779]

Because you mention the buck converter on the Arduino: I am used to transformers that the amperage is reduced when the voltage is transformed up and the amperage is increased when the voltage is transformed down. If I want to regulate a voltage of 12 volts /2 amps down to 5 volts, I have the question of whether a maximum of two amps can also flow on the output ( because the transformer does not supply more) or whether the theoretical amperage could increase to four or five amps because sufficient power is available - assuming sufficient power and cooling of the converter, of course. With a transformer, this would be terribly simple: yes. With these converters, I can only find the value for a maximum current load plus a margin for sufficient cooling. I would also be interested in the logic, operation and risks of combining power supplies into "redundant power supplies". Simply connecting two switched-mode power supplies together on the secondary side - it probably won't be that simple. Have you ever made a video on these topics? thanks in advance

[@awksedgreep]

Hmm, takes 12V? Love it. Just what I needed for my power management/monitoring project for my radio room. Very thorough coverage, thank you.

[@g0fvt]

I suspect we have similar plans for it!

[@g0fvt]

FWIW I have used a Pi Pico W to do much of this, for ideas I looked at someone's remote control robot project. the Pico runs a webserver allowing remote control of a number of circuits.

[@awksedgreep]

@@g0fvt Nice! I have designs for ESP32 with one relay and one ammeter per feeding MQTT telemetry and subscribing to a channel for remote relay trigger. Was hoping to avoid 12v step down, but these are too expensive per board.

[@g0fvt]

@@awksedgreep for many purposes some of these boards are far too powerful/expensive. I did have an Arduino doing some telemetry for me but that reported via USB to a Pi with Wifi which also provided power over USB. The Pi Pico W may interest you, better ADC resolution than the Arduino and of course it has Wifi. Very low current draw so easy to use a 5v series regulator...

[@LanceMcGrew]

Would the Rigol DS1054Z Digital Oscilloscope be too much for the "beginner"?

[@tainchivers6292]

Hope you are ok Bill. Sorry to hear about the storm

[@rickh6963]

Bill, I picked mine up on launch day. I haven't had a lot of time to play with it but I would like to take a stab at porting the Speeduino Engine management software to it.

[@Jamen1970]

Great video thanks! Would like to request a video using the Giga and the DSI connector if possible.

[@LanceMcGrew]

Thanks!

[@Dronebotworkshop]

Thank you so much Lance!

[@stu6097]

I am surprised the GIGA reduces the number of PWM connections relative to Mega from 15 down to 12. I was hoping for more PWM connections.

[@connorhoyle2926]

I feel like using a teensy 4.1 and an upcoming esp32s3 xiao paired could do basically all of this stuff for cheaper and in a much smaller form factor.

[@RogerBarraud]

You don't need to type 'exit' to exit a terminal program; just ^D will usually do it.

[@MikevomMars]

Yeah but... why is it so chunky compared to Nano and ESP-32 form factor? 😮

[@DepressedMusicEnjoyer]

To be mega compatible, there is a 5.5mm version of this ic.

[@robotolicious4272]

solid instructional content. you're one of the good guys. thanks

[@republicofvegans712]

47:19 FYI if you damage the ADC converter(s) you damage the CPU. Basically you gotta replace it which is a pain since its smd

[@rdyer8764]

Nice! Thanks.

[@caffeinatedinsanity2324]

I worked a bit with stm32 chips and they're already more powerful than the old atmega chips older arduinos use. The STM32H7 series are a NASA grade F1 of their own.

[@TheNexusElementMain]

Would love to see the giga doing something like a weather station. Using the DAC you could use Beamforming and filters for a solid state precipitation sensor. 350us is approx. the round trip time for quite a number of kilometer. Also using a parking sensor (4 waterproof ultrasonic sensors with the converter PCB) a ultrasonic anemometer could be used and calibrated. This is a bit complex; I find MATLAB has a number of videos to help with theory on radar, drones (and swarms) and filters to handle alot of the noise in the sensors. May be more of a video series than one video, but hey might be fun! You mentioned you could run a farm with the giga. Would love to see some form of video dedicated to that! (Myself thinking of vertical hydroponics with a rotating the column, ultrasonic vibration for pollination, maybe automatic drone(s) with cameras to check crops)

[@Leroys_Stuff]

Thanks Bill for the info on these was looking but undecided got enough in my home built cnc

[@danny12345]

Thank you

[@MarkMcCluney]

No Dad joke Bill? This sounds serious!

[@renefuller9241]

I realized the date on the numbers.txt is a little off - 2097-12-31. How did that happen? As you mentioned FAT32 can't format over a certain size. Could it have something to do with that? Is it Linux you are using to read the stick? The octal permissions usually don't display on Windows machines. I don't know what Windows uses under the hood as to permissions (maybe hex), but it does not display octal. The board is pretty cool though! Your videos are so well researched, that is a full-time job in itself. I love watching your videos to give me a different take on how to use different electronic devices.

[@michaelmckenney8800]

I checked on the Arduino Forum. They state you can run Arduino or Micropython not both on separate cores. Have you been able to get both to install and run? How?

[@32_bits]

Another well thought out and produced video. A question for the compilation and upload times, are these as slow in Arduinio IDE as an ESP32? As these boards get faster and the code longer with more libuaries, a very long compliation and upload could be a big bug bear.

[@nathanmatthews8172]

After switching to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (I know... gross) my compile and upload speeds to an ESP32 have improved drastically.

[@EnergeticWaves]

Did it play the sounds? I couldn't find that in your video

[@natuerlichedummheit]

How did you made the smurf-voice? Love it 😄

[@CharizardFan_og]

59:28 - at the point you are making here is the Giga 4 or 5 times stronger than the esp32 board. That should be the consideration on weather or not it is actually too expensive... In my opinion...

[@spasticjackson9578]

If the pinout is the same, hopefully the DIN rail mount for the Mega will work on this. If so, this GIGA is now a HUGE win for real deal automation. Sadly, it seems to be sold out at the Arduino store.

[@user-mr3mf8lo7y]

The Linux DFU message is basically a (user) permission incident, not really a problem. What you suggest is a permanent solution, i.e. even if Linux PC rebooted, it will still apply the permissions. If you don't want to go that route simply run the following command just after Arduino Giga plugged in (via USB). Two commands (&&) but I made it one liner. chmod 0666 /dev/usb* && chmod 0666 /dev/ttyUSB*

[@jhyland87]

Seems odd that it can only do 3.3v... I wonder why no 5v

[@BlondieSL]

This thing is expensive! I can only see buying one of these for some massive, permanent project that no other board would be good for. I can't think of one......... LOL

[@bunnykiller]

give it a few months, the clones will be out then...

[@thiagosannafreiresilva4366]

Exactly, feels like a solution in search of a problem...

[@in_sympathy]

If you'd buy a new Arduino board today - what would it be - Giga or R4 Wifi and why? Can't really decide

[@ecjb1969]

Is the reason for the commas in the IP address because of a European reversal of the comma and period? I know, for example, that the French and German locales use the comma for the decimal separator and the period for the thousands separator. It might be possible that changing the locale settings would change the IP address separators.

[@CollinBaillie]

Hey Bill, still waiting for my forum registration from April 1 last year! (Maybe March 31st)

[@terryphan7451]

This look like the perfect board for a Voron build.

[@DavidKHill]

This would be a great addition to my "uino" collection. Thanks for the very detailed video on your first look experience with. Unfortunately right now this little guy is sold out everywhere or coming soon. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

[@filetdelumiere5037]

@45:02 I don't understand where is the serial "read" in the buffer buff[256] in the code? Line 53, 54, 55? Something is missing or I am wrong?

[@creativemind8573]

Can we control GPIOS pins of Arduino mega which are used to control relays with the help of Nodemcu ESP8266 by using WIFI of Nodemcu?

[@rusticagenerica]

May God bless you to thank you for all these videos man !

[@bertbrecht7540]

Very nice review of a very nice board. It would be great to have a 16 bit DAC on board to experiment with CD quality output. Is it difficult for chip designers to provide 16 bit? I assume its not just as simple as slapping 4 more bits on the existing 12. Also, if 32Gb SD cards are going for $5, why are micro controllers so stingy with on chip memory?

[@PainterVierax]

microcontrollers are stingy on memory because that takes a lot of space on the legacy nodes used to make those dies. And like SOCs, processors or RAM chips, SD cards don't need built-in opamps or ADCs so those dies can be more easily manufactured on smaller/more recent lithography processes.

[@DepressedMusicEnjoyer]

There indeed are brought out I2s pins

[@user-ql5gd2xi9m]

Hi, I am new to Arduino coding and building, so this might be a silly question.. but are there advantages or disadvantages of using a board that needs 3.3 V instead of 5 V? So far I've only worked with 5 V Arduino Micro. Greetings from Germany! :)

[@Lucky_Trucky]

What I'm just wondering is, can you connect a PC monitor via the DSI display connector?

[@edinetgrunhed6000]

nice video, i always following your videos but so far i didn't see any video about CAN BUS communication using ESP32 or any raspberry pi

[@xav500011]

Can the Arduino GIGA digital input pins tolerate 5 volts input?

[@rusticagenerica]

Your videos are super awesome !

[@pilliozoltan6918]

Even if it uses 3.3v, some of the stm gpios are 5V tolerant. I don't see this feature in the arduino datasheet, so you have to figure it out yourself which are those.

[@fench1234567]

I've been very disappointed at how little there is posted and/or written in books about this board! There are only a few scarce videos and sites about it, aside from a thin selection of libraries and arduino help files. I read somewhere that this board isn't used or covered more because it fails to meet industry standards in some way. Can someone tell me more about this?

[@drakkorvladimir4012]

Giga will not print to serial monitor. All other boards do?????

[@MGsyd]

Very nice

[@henryrambeau2460]

Which Arduino would I be able to use to attach to an antenna to get the Internet from satellite?

[@youpattube1]

A very well done and informative video. I'm starting to think about doing an arduino project

[@Willy_Tepes]

Sounds great for building a "Spot" robot.

[@fench1234567]

Are there any LCD touch displays that are compatible with the GIGA? This thing has enough memory to run simple games.

[@phantomjedi8277]

I would be interested in how to convert an RC Radio Transmitter to Arduino control .

[@drakkorvladimir4012]

I just can't upload to this board. I don't know what is going on?

[@AmitSingh-cz4lq]

How can we use both SPI simultaneously in Arduino Giga R1 WiFi? Interfacing micro SD card and nRF24L01+ modules connected to SPI5 and SPI1 respectively. The SPI numbering is as per the specification sheet #2. The nRF24L01+ module sends the data from various sensors like GPS, heading, depth, etc. micro SD card module saves the data locally. Please share the Arduino code too. Thanks in advance.

[@johnburgess2084]

Fantastic video. Thanks.

[@eshdhhdhd4251]

So it supports USB type A. Can you use it to read NVME- boards? I would love to use this in parallel with a Late Panda. I’m assuming this supports WiFi 6 as well

[@chrischris6399]

With this price, how far can this module go? How many people care about it?

[@francoisleveille409]

The Teensy 4.1 is actually faster but this Arduino has more features and built-in WiFi/BLE which the Teensy lacks.

[@LasPalmasHawaii]

hi i wanted to ask you something about programming this card, Can I export / import the compiled scketch? which format/extension is exported: ino.elf.uf2 ? . elf? or other

[@thehappycoder3760]

Brilliant as usual

[@Ducerobot]

Cool video !you know Annie gonna get a giga. But I don't see it available.

[@inlywang8157]

Cool and informative, thanks for your share, Bill💞

[@__--JY-Moe--__]

wow! a real usable module, would like to see beefy'er cpu's though. has any1 seen a thread scheduler yet? real nice! good luck all !!

[@redmundperrz7234]

I always watch your youtube video but so far as I remember you didn’t make video about CAN BUS communication in particular using Esp32 mcu, it will be helpful if u could make

[@trainspotting_and_tech2023]

Very nice & informative video! Keep it up! 👍🙂

[@zetadoop8910]

IMO board is too big. All boards with M7 processors are expensive. I would prefer Teensy if I need M7. Raspberry Pi has best support for camera. You can't make nice keyboard with it. Quadcopter? 3D printers have specialized boards our days. If you design PCB you would prefer something small like teensy or pico or ESP to solder on PCB. Hard to imagine it would be a popular board.

[@andymouse]

Schools might lap it up all those disciplines on one board and the Arduino ecosystem on side it's great for teaching

[@zetadoop8910]

@@andymouse you are right about schools but 3v pins will burn and it is expensive board

[@bipedalrobot]

Hi, is GIGAR1 can run st7789 lcd? If it can, which library we can use, thanks.

[@the1spyderryder]

Please show a project using the Arduno Pro Micro that shows how to blink the tx and rx LEDs sin e there is no pin 13 nor pin13 LED . I also need to know how to program it. With the NANO is very simple to program. Thank you great videos! I use the ArduinoDroid IDE.

[@DavidTLutz]

@45:15 the errant "usb' on line 56 clobbered these five lines: while (fgets(buf, 256, f) != NULL) { Serial.print(buf); } Serial.println("File closing"); Took me a while to figure out why the code in DBWS ZIP file would not work.

[@DepressedMusicEnjoyer]

The adc can run in interleaved mode at 8MSPS at 16 bit resolution

[@dvhx]

What is current consumption of blinking demo?

[@robertherzog2087]

Will the Giga run on an ESP_NOW network?