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The Arduino Nano33 IoT is a very small ARM development board based on the Atmel SAMD21 family of processors. It also has a NINA-W102 chip onboard which provides an wireless communication abilities based on the popular ESP32 family of wireless chips from Espressif.

Interfaces

Interface Hardware Supported TinyGo Support
GPIO YES YES
UART YES YES
SPI YES YES
I2C YES YES
ADC YES YES
PWM YES YES

Pins

Pin Hardware pin PWM
RX0 PB23
TX1 PB22
D2 PB10 TCC0
D3 PB11 TCC0
D4 PA07 TCC1
D5 PA05 TCC0
D6 PA04 TCC0
D7 PA06 TCC1
D8 PA18 TCC0
D9 PA20 TCC0
D10 PA21 TCC0
D11 PA16 TCC2, TCC0
D12 PA19 TCC0
D13, LED PA17 TCC2, TCC0
A0 PA02
A1 PB02
A2 PA11 TCC1, TCC0
A3 PA10 TCC1, TCC0
A4 PB08
A5 PB09
A6 PA09 TCC0, TCC1
A7 PB03

Machine Package Docs

Documentation for the machine package for the Arduino Nano33 IoT

Pin Mapping

Since the pin labels are located on the other side of the board, here is a picture showing the pin numbering from the front side perspective:

Arduino Nano33 IoT

Installing BOSSA

In order to flash your TinyGo programs onto the Arduino Nano33 IoT board, you will need to install the "bossac" command line utility which is part of the BOSSA command line utilities.

macOS

You can use Homebrew to install the BOSSA command line interface by using the following command:

brew cask install bossa

Or if you prefer, you can also download the installer from https://github.com/shumatech/BOSSA/releases/download/1.9.1/bossa-1.9.1.dmg

Once you have downloaded it, double click on the .dmg file to perform the installation.

Linux

On Linux, install from source:

sudo apt install libreadline-dev libwxgtk3.0-* 
git clone https://github.com/shumatech/BOSSA.git
cd BOSSA
make
sudo cp bin/bossac /usr/local/bin

Windows

You can download BOSSA from https://github.com/shumatech/BOSSA/releases/download/1.9.1/bossa-x64-1.9.1.msi

VERY IMPORTANT: During the installation, you much choose to install into c:\Program Files. The installer might have the wrong path, so edit it to match c:\Program Files.

After the installation, you must add BOSSA to your PATH:

set PATH=%PATH%;"c:\Program Files\BOSSA";

Test that you have installed "BOSSA" correctly by running this command:

bossac --help

Flashing

Once you have installed the needed BOSSA command line utility, as in the previous section, you are ready to build and flash code to your Arduino Nano33 IoT board.

CLI Flashing

  • Plug your Arduino Nano33 IoT board into your computer's USB port.

  • Build and flash your TinyGo code using the tinygo flash command. This command flashes the Arduino Nano33 IoT with the blinky1 example:

    tinygo flash -target=arduino-nano33 examples/blinky1

  • The Arduino Nano33 IoT board should restart and then begin running your program.

Troubleshooting

If you have troubles getting your Arduino Nano33 IoTboard to receive code, try this:

  • Press the "RESET" button on the board two times to get the Arduino Nano33 IoT board ready to receive code.

  • Now try running the tinygo flash command as above:

    tinygo flash -target=arduino-nano33 [PATH TO YOUR PROGRAM]

Once you have updated your Arduino Nano33 IoT board the first time, after that you should be able to flash it entirely from the command line.

Notes

You can use the USB port to the Arduino Nano33 IoT as a serial port. UART0 refers to this connection.

For information on how to use the built-in NINA-W102 wireless chip with the default firmware, please see the "wifinina" driver in the TinyGo drivers repository located at https://github.com/tinygo-org/drivers/tree/release/wifinina.

You can also use the Espressif ESP-AT firmware, although you will need to flash it yourself. Please see the "espat" driver in the TinyGo drivers repository located at https://github.com/tinygo-org/drivers/tree/release/espat.