CREATOR PRO – Ameba RTL8711 WiFI board for $8.80

Maybe you remember on news about the alternative to ESP8266 called RTL8710. Now is available a new development board with RTL8711AM – CREATOR Pro by RAKwireless.

The RTL8711AM integrates high-performance CPU, WiFi, Ethernet, peripherals like SPI, I2C and more. RT8711 can be easier implemented to Arduino with through Standard Arduino library.

CREATOR is programmable platform for development of IoT appliacations.

CREATOR Pro contains compatible Arduino connector (Arduino Uno Rev.3) and the board is supported in Windows and Mac OS.

Specification of RTL8711AM:

CPU: 32bit ARM Cortex M3, up to 166MHz

Memory: 1MB ROM, 2 MB SDRAM, 512kB SRAM

Key Features: integrated 802.11 b/g/n 1×1 WiFi

NFC tag with Read/Write protection

Hardware SSL engine

19 GPIOs

1x SPI (master and slave mode)

2x UART

3x I2C (master and slave mode)

4x PWM

1x ADC

1x DAC

link to store: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/CREATOR-Ameba-RTL8711AM-WiFi-Board-Support-the-Arduino-IDE-64M-Flash-2M-SDRAM-Compatible-with-Arduino/2805180_32807149042.html?spm=2114.12010608.0.0.KctK3T

Shared by https://www.rtl8710forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=290

Documents and tools on http://www.rakwireless.com/en/download – RAK473

Pinout of board see bellow.