Designed for Playing, Learning and Hacking (by FEDEVEL)

Completely Open Source. Based on NXP (Freescale) i.MX6 CPU + LPC13xx MCU. Arduino & Raspberry Pi like headers. All documents are free for download, including Schematic and PCB.

Community

If you are a fan of OpenRex project or if you are using OpenRex board in your own project, please let us know through our OpenRex Education Project Community website. You can share your projects there, ask others for help or their opinion and, if you like, you can become member of a team creating & building awesome resources to help kids to learn programming and electronics. Have a look at openrexkit.org

Status

Available. Purchase OpenRex from VOIPAC >

Specification

NXP (Freescale) i.MX6 processor, up to 1.2GHz / 4 cores

NXP microcontroller LPC13xx (Default: LPC1345FHN33)

Soldered down DDR3-1066 (533MHz), up to 4GB

1x 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet

1x HDMI Output (up to QXGA 2048×1536)

1x Parallel CSI Camera input or RGB Parallel Display output

1x Differential Camera Input (Compatible with Raspberry Pi) or LVDS display output

1x SATA

1x micro SD

1x PCIE mini slot + micro SIM (can be used for WiFi or Wireless modem)

1x USB OTG Micro

2x USB

1x CAN transceiver

1x Compass + Accelerometer

1x Gyroscope

1x Humidity sensor

1x Temperature sensor

1x Audio (Headphones output, Microphone input)

1x Touchscreen connector (Touchscreen through LPC13xx / Optional 4x Analog input)

1x I2C EEPROM

1x SPI FLASH

1x IR Receiver

1x Arduino type header. Default: 4x Analog input 3x GPIO 1x I2C 1x CAN 1x USB

1x Raspberry PI type header. Default: 2x I2C 2x UART 1x CAN TX/RX 2x SPI 3x GPIO/PWM

1x UART Debug console (FTDI compatible)

8+2 USER LED

Power LED, SD Card LED, USB HUB LED

1x Reset button, 3x User button (e.g. Home, Volume Up, Volume Down)

Size: 70 x 95 mm (2.75 x 3.75 inch)

Input power: 5V DC (through Power Jack or USB micro)

Board overview Top

Board overview Bottom

Download Complete OpenRex Production & Altium Designer Files





Getting started

How to connect your OpenRex board for the very first time? Read here >

Datasheet

OpenRex datasheet was created by VOIPAC and can be downloaded here >

Software

To find out all about OpenRex software, click here >

Schematic

Block diagram

3D PDF

This is the OpenRex 3D PDF (use Adobe Reader to see it)

PCB Layout

Here are some screenshots from the signal layers of OpenRex PCB. The PCB has 10 Layers in total with through hole VIAs only.

Click to enlarge

Add-on boards

The TOP OpenRex add-on board is also Raspberry Pi compatible. It may be used on the OpenRex SOLO version (with no or low profile heatsink). The BOTTOM add-on boards are larger. The plan is to support multiple add-on boards stacked on top of each other. It will require a lot of testing and playing Click here to download 3D PDF to see it in Adobe Reader.

Project status

When we test a new peripheral, we also update this table. More details about the tests can be found here >>

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