#mangoh

Mangoh & Friends & Entrapdak

Character sheet for my girl Mangoh and her unusual pets, featuring a crappy entrapdak doodle and a cursed Ghibli cosplay, yaY.

Chibi redraw [Again]

Chibi Mangool & Mangoh! [Sketch]

The MangOH platform (see tag) is now available, but alas the price is a little disappointing: the starter kit is $USD 240 and lacking in network connectivity options (3G only) and features in general. More here.

Hardware Features:

3 IoT Connectors slots QSFP (industrial-grade) to connect sensors, networks, with hot plugin feature

2 CF3™ connectors (industrial-grade) for application processors and wireless modules

WP8548 CF3 module with a Cortex A5 application processor, GNSS receiver, and 3G cellular modem (Included in the starter kit, but sold separately if you order the board only)

1 Arduino connector supporting compatible shields

1 USB 2.0 Micro, 1 RS232/Serial, 1 RJ45/Ethernet, 1 Audio Jack

Micro SD Card slot

3 U.FL antenna connectors: primary, secondary/diversity, GPS/GNSS. SMA option available

Accelerometer and gyroscope

Battery enabled for low-power wireless applications

Once you skip the paragraphs of intro, this article is about project mangOH (see the tag). Here’s the benefits of mangOH:

It is a Eurocard format (100×120 mm), which is very common in the industry. Plenty of casing options are already available.

To allow expandability, mangOH provides industrial-grade connectors quad small form-factor pluggable plus(QSFP+) called “IoT Connectors”. These connectors can receive dongle-like boards that can slide into the platform, even in hot-plug mode. This results in an extensible and flexible end product. For example, let’s say you want to build a home automation/energy/security box. You want compatibility with any kind of local network, such as WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Thread, or Dust, and you want to use any sensor on these networks. mangOH will allow you to easily do that. Or, if your product has a fixed interface, then these IoT modules can be factory-installed using screws.

mangOH has been designed with casing concerns in mind too. Depending on the IoT boards, front and rear faceplate design files can be generated online and then 3D printed for your prototype or manufactured for your final product.

Not sure what this is quite yet, but interesting? I signed up to the mailing list.

Project mangOH™ is a new kind of open source hardware for Internet-of-Things (IoT) industrial-grade products. Project mangOH is born from a reference design provided under open source licence (business friendly) by Sierra Wireless.

Project mangOH aims at easing the prototyping and the productization of IoT solutions:

its modular design allows hardware designers to select components that will be populated on board, avoiding a complete redesign when you'll decide to turn your prototype into an industrial product

it uses industrial grade onboard components or footprint compatible options

it fits standard Eurocard casing (100x120mm) that is very common in industry