Seeed Studio Targets Next-Gen HMI with the Espressif ESP32-P4-Powered reTerminal D1001
8" full-color touchscreen and integrated camera connect to Espressif's powerful dual-core P4 — with a C6 as a communications chip.
Seeed Studio has announced a new 8" smart display, built around the Espressif ESP32-P4 and designed with human-machine interface (HMI) projects in mind: the reTerminal D1001.
"Modern products increasingly require: higher resolutions, more advanced HMI, camera input, multimedia features, and room for future expansion," explains Seeed's Liora Chen of the thinking behind the company's latest in the reTerminal family. "What begins as a display project can quickly turn into a series of compromises between performance, responsiveness, and scalability. The result? Too many developers are forced to design around the limits of the controller instead of designing the product they actually want to build. reTerminal D1001 is built for exactly that next step."
The device is built around a full-color 8" 1280×800 capacitive touchscreen display, set at the front of a pre-assembled enclosure. Behind the panel is Espressif's new ESP32-P4NRW32 module, a dual-core RISC-V microcontroller running at up to 400MHz and with 768kB of on-chip static RAM (SRAM) that, in this particular variant, acts as a high-speed cache for 32MB of pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM). There's a 40MHz ultra-low-power core alongside the two main cores, and 32MB of quad-SPI flash — expandable in the reTerminal D1001 via a microSD card slot.
Unusually for Espressif, the ESP32-P4 doesn't include any wireless connectivity — so Seeed's design includes an ESP32-C6 acting as a communications coprocessor for single-band Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 Low Energy (BLE). There's a mini-PCI Express (mPCIe) slot for an optional cellular modem, too, along with unpopulated pads for a LoRa transceiver module. There's an integrated speaker, two microphones, a real-time clock, six-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a 1600×1200 camera capable of 30 frames per second (FPS) video. Everything is powered by an internal 2.5Ah battery, charged via a USB Type-C connection.
"With reTerminal D1001, developers can move beyond basic display integration to build products with smoother UI [User Interface], richer interaction, and more room for future expansion," claims Chen of the new device. "Built for smart home panels, industrial HMIs, interactive dashboards, and vision-enabled edge devices, it helps accelerate the path from prototype to product."
The reTerminal D1001 is now available to order on the Seeed Studio store, priced at $84.90 before volume discounts.