As part of our range of high-performance hardware, Portenta Hat Carrier transforms your Portenta X8 into an industrial platform compatible with Raspberry Pi^® Hats, ready for multiple robotics and building automation applications.

Compatible also with Portenta H7 and Portenta C33, Portenta Hat Carrier provides easy access to multiple peripherals – including CAN, Ethernet, microSD and USB – and further simplifies any Portenta application.

Great for prototyping and ready for scaling up, it features dedicated JTAG pins for quick debugging and a PWM fan connector, and is ideal to control actuators via 16x analog I/Os, or to develop industrial machine vision solutions leveraging the onboard camera connector.

Industrial-grade applications require robust and reliable components that can stand the test of time and endure the toughest usage conditions. The Arduino Portenta family was born to cater to these specific needs while never compromising on flexibility and openness, contrasting vendor lock-in with transparency and wide compatibility.

Prototype like a pro

The new Portenta Hat Carrier was designed to be used with a wide range of Raspberry Pi® Hats covering any need, and to offer a frictionless Linux prototyping experience – exposing multiple Portenta peripherals and enabling easy debugging and inspection of the CAN lines through dedicated pins, while allowing for the actuation of multiple devices leveraging the ready-programmable analog I/Os.

Portenta Hat Carrier is suitable for industrial automation applications ranging from robot arm motion controllers – as the CAN interface integrated at the HW level and the ROS container at the SW level allow Portenta X8 to control machinery’s trajectory, while simultaneously interacting with all the external electronics – to smart sorting systems, leveraging machine vision through a dedicated TensorFlow^™ container while actuating a conveyor.

Portenta Hat Carrier can also help users test the audio quality of their speakers and musical instruments in combination with a Raspberry Pi^® Hat to create audio quality test benches – or monitor environmental sounds in a variety of environments, from noisy production plants to public spaces.

Portenta Hat Carrier’s capabilities can be put to good use in building automation to monitor environmental parameters such as temperature, air quality and CO₂ levels in real time and manage heating, ventilation or purification systems remotely, according to data or even automated alerts received via Arduino Cloud.

Portenta Hat Carrier can also be at the heart of smart video surveillance systems, ready to promptly detect and warn users about intrusions or vandalism, or even connecting with high-performance cameras to further improve security.