The AVR-IoT Cellular Mini is not billed as an official Curiosity Development Board. However, it’s red and looks like a Curiosity Development Board. The AVR-IoT Cellular Mini even has a built-in programmer/debugger like a Curiosity Development Board. The only thing that the AVR-IoT Cellular Mini does not have in common with the Curiosity Development Boards we’ve been working with so far is that the AVR-IoT Cellular Mini’s firmware is generated using Arduino. So, from where we stand, the AVR-IoT Cellular Mini is indeed a member of the Curiosity Development Board family.

This lecture will focus on the AVR-IoT Cellular Mini hardware and the Arduino code that makes up the functions contained within the AVR-IoT Cellular Mini’s API. During the course of today’s discussion, we will assemble a firmware development environment based on Arduino and AVR-IoT Cellular Mini Arduino libraries that runs under the supervision of Visual Studio Code. Following the successful implementation of the Visual Studio Code/Arduino firmware development environment, we will apply the AVR-IoT Cellular Mini API calls to some example code, which we will write using Arduino.