HiHope HiSpark WiFi IoT development board features Hisilicon Hi3861 microcontroller with 2.4 GHz 802.11b/g/n WiFi 4 and supports Huawei LiteOS as well as HarmonyOS.
Equipped with 2MB flash and 384KB SRAM, the board targets smart home applications, and ships with a baseboard to help with development.
- MCU – Hisilicon Hi3861 32-bit microcontroller @ up to 160 MHz with 352 KB SRAM and 288 KB ROM, 2 MB flash memory, and WiFI 4 connectivity; QFN-32 5x5mm package
- WiFi
- 802.11b/g/n standard up to 72 Mbps @ HT20
- 2.4 GHz frequency band (ch1-ch14).
- Station (STA) and access point (AP) modes with up to 6 clients for the latter
- WiFi mesh with up to 256 nodes
- Security – WPA, WPA2 personal, and WPS 2.0
- PCB antenna
- USB – 1x USB Type-C port for power and programming via CH340 chip
- Expansion – 2x headers with up to 2x SPI, 2x I2C, 3x UART interfaces, 15x GPIO, 7x ADC inputs, 6x PWM interfaces, 1x I2S
- Misc – Reset and user buttons, jumper to select boot mode
- Power consumption for Hi3861 chip
- Ultra deep sleep mode: 5 μA @ 3.3 V
- DTIM1: 1.5 mA @ 3.3 V
- DTIM3: 0.8 mA @ 3.3 V
- Dimensions – 5×2 cm
- Temperature Range – –40°C to +85°C

HiSpark board appears to be an official development platform for Huawei OpenHarmonyOS since there’s a dedicated device page on HarmonyOS website.
The specifications do not mention the type of microcontroller core used in Hi3861, but the software development workflow shows a Windows workstation to edit the code and Linux server which relies on a GCC RISCV-32 toolchain to build the code. So it must be a 32-bit RISC-V core despite some other websites mentioning a Cortex-M4 core. If you don’t plan on modifying the firmware, you can also program the board with Python.
As noted in the introduction, HiHope also provides a baseboard for HiSpark board with an NFC port, what looks like Arduino compatible headers, a battery header, a jumper to select USB or battery power, and an on/off switch.
Besides the device page on the HarmonyOS website, you’ll find code samples on Gitee, and a subforum on Elefans where developers share their experience (Chinese language only).
I could also find an unboxing box on Elefans, where somebody purchased a complete kit with HiSpark board, the baseboard and various modules include an OLED display, NFC, PIR, etc…
HiSpark board is sold for 56 RMB ($8.4) on HiHope Taobao store, while the devkit goes for 399 RMB ($59.5). There are also two other HiSpark devkits for HarmonyOS including HiSpark AI camera (Hi3516) and HiSpark DIY IP camera (Hi3518).

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
How does this compete with the ESP32, beside the LiteOS and HarmonyOS?
Source code appears to be here: https://openharmony.gitee.com/openharmony/vendor_hisi_hi3861_hi3861/
However, I think to build it you’ll require bits from the rest of openharmony.
Browsing around, the device is certain to be 32-bit RISC-V based, which is a plus for everybody wanting to abandon proprietary arches like ESP32’s Tensilica and ARM used by others.
Hi, how to flash the bin files to Hi3865 wlan board? i manage to build the source in Linux host machine and build was success and i can see the binary files are generated. Is there any HiTool available for this flash ?