LinkIt Smart 7688 IoT Development Board

LinkIt Smart 7688 is one of the most highly integrated and compact hardware development boards available for IoT prototyping. The MPU is powered by MediaTek’s MT7688AN SOC that supports the OpenWrt Linux distribution. Features High-integration MPU: Support 580 MHz MIPS CPU and 32MB flash and 128MB DDR2 RAM Support OpenWrt: Run on Linux platform, freely choose C, C++, Python, PHP and other programming languages 1T1R Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n: Integrate WiFi wireless transmission function of (Single Input Single Output)1T1R 802.11b /g/n Rich peripheral interfaces available: Pin-out for GPIO, I2C, I2S, SPI, UART, PWM and Ethernet Port USB Host Mode: USB host capability that enables it to connect to various USB devices Description LinkIt Smart 7688 is an open development board based on OpenWrt Linux distribution and MT7688. The board is designed especially to enable the prototyping of Rich IoT Applications for Smart Homes. The board offers you memory and packet storage to enable robust video processing. The MPU supports the OpenWrt Linux distribution, it processes an application’s intensive logic tasks and provides Wi-Fi connectivity. It supports Python, Node.js and C programming languages. The MCU handles real-time peripheral control as well as offers the ability to run Arduino sketches. It comes with 802.11n WiFi for setting up Web applications and has rich GPIO outputs, which are perfect for embedding into all kinds of smart home projects. LinkIt Smart 7688 is a co-design product by Seeed Studio and MediaTek. It brings together the parties' knowledge of open hardware and industry leading reference designs for IoT devices to create this powerful development board. LinkIt Smart 7688 provides USB host capability that enables it to connect to various USB devices such as webcams, USB drives, keyboards, joysticks and more. The connector is a USB micro-AB type. LinkIt Smart 7688 are two types of antenna supported one is the default antenna built-in Wi-Fi chip antenna, and the other is I-PEX connector for external antenna(To enable the I-PEX connector, you’ll need to remove the resistor R233 located on the top left corner of the I-PEX connector).