Launching today at CES 2025, the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit is here to revolutionize how professionals approach prototyping. Designed to empower engineers, designers, and innovators from all walks of life, this kit provides everything you need to turn your ideas into functional prototypes quickly, efficiently, and without conventional limitations.
Available in two variants – Portenta Proto Kit ME (Motion Environment) and VE (Vision Environment, available later this month) – the kit equips you with advanced tools to tackle any challenge, from environmental sensing to machine vision to vibration detection, accelerating the prototyping phase from weeks to days and days to hours. Whether you’re developing predictive maintenance systems or high-speed test rigs, the flexible and comprehensive Portenta Proto Kit has you covered.
What’s inside the Portenta Proto Kit?
At the heart of the kit is the powerful Portenta H7, paired with the versatile Portenta Mid Carrier. These components support advanced processing and edge machine learning, ensuring your prototypes are as future-ready as they are functional.
The kit also includes the full set of our innovative Modulino nodes for rapid sensing and actuation, 4G GNSS Module Global for connectivity, and an Arduino Cloud for Business Voucher for your first three months of seamless cloud integration – so you can store, display, and analyze data remotely.
Depending on your chosen configuration, you’ll also find everything you need for motion, vision, and environmental sensing in one kit:
- Nicla Vision and Nicla Sense Env for machine vision and environmental monitoring (Vision Environment variant)
- Nicla Sense ME for motion detection and predictive maintenance (Motion Environment variant)
You’ll easily integrate all of these hardware tools with the new Proto Shield included, and leverage the Arduino IDE on the software side to develop quick, scalable, IoT-enabled prototypes.
Go from concept to reality in a wide range of applications
The Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit is suitable for many industries and countless applications: the kit’s modular design means you can tailor your prototypes to meet specific requirements, ensuring your projects are always on track. What’s more, you’ll often be able to transition from prototyping to production with no redesigns required.
Here are some ideas you could explore:
- Predictive maintenance: reduce downtime and monitor machinery health, using advanced Nicla sensors and cloud-based predictive algorithms.
- Environmental monitoring: precisely track air quality, noise, and other parameters for real-time decision-making.
- Machine vision: implement object recognition, motion detection, and people counting using Nicla Vision.
- Logistics tracking: monitor goods in transit with environmental data and cloud-enabled location tracking.
- Intruder detection: use motion and face recognition for security monitoring, with cloud-based real-time alerts.
- EV charging station: create a prototype for efficient, remotely managed charging with data analytics.
- High-speed test rigs: build scalable test benches for automated sensor calibration, load testing, and real-time data analysis.
As always, we are curious to find out what the Arduino professional community will come up with next!
Learn and innovate with the ACE-220 course
Ready to hit the ground running? Enroll in ACE-220: Portenta Proto Kit Certification Course on Arduino Academy. This 8-hour professional program is designed to provide embedded engineers, hardware designers, and firmware developers with hands-on modules that cover everything from hardware and software setup to cloud integration. By dedicating a few hours to the ACE-220 course, you’ll gain the expertise to leverage the kit’s capabilities fully, saving significant time and effort in your prototyping process and accelerating your path to innovation.
Get started on your greatest idea now!
Whether you’re building the next big thing in automation, smart cities, or IoT, the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit offers the tools to make it happen. Explore the full kit online and take the first step toward redefining what’s possible in prototyping.
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