This 900 MHz radio version can be used for either 868 MHz or 915 MHz transmission/reception – the exact radio frequency is determined when you load the software since it can be tuned around dynamically. At the Feather 32u4's heart is at ATmega32u4 clocked at 8 MHz and at 3.3 V logic. This chip has 32 K of flash and 2 K of RAM, with built in USB so not only does it have a USB-to-Serial program & debug capability built in with no need for an FTDI-like chip, it can also act like a mouse, keyboard, USB MIDI device, etc. To make it easy to use for portable projects, we added a connector for any 3.7 V Lithium polymer batteries and built in battery charging. You don't need a battery, it will run just fine straight from the micro USB connector. But, if you do have a battery, you can take it on the go, then plug in the USB to recharge. The Feather will automatically switch over to USB power when its available. We also tied the battery thru a divider to an analog pin, so you can measure and monitor the battery voltage to detect when you need a recharge. Features Measures 2.0' x 0.9' x 0.28' (51 x 23 x 8 mm) without headers soldered in Light as a (large?) feather – 5.5 grams ATmega32u4 @ 8 MHz with 3.3 V logic/power 3.3 V regulator with 500 mA peak current output USB native support, comes with USB bootloader and serial port debugging You also get tons of pins – 20 GPIO pins Hardware Serial, hardware I²C, hardware SPI support 7x PWM pins 10x analog inputs Built in 100 mA lipoly charger with charging status indicator LED Pin #13 red LED for general purpose blinking Power/enable pin 4 mounting holes Reset button The Feather 32u4 Radio uses the extra space left over to add an RFM69HCW 868/915 MHz radio module. These radios are not good for transmitting audio or video, but they do work quite well for small data packet transmission when you ned more range than 2.4 GHz (BT, BLE, WiFi, ZigBee) SX1231 based module with SPI interface Packet radio with ready-to-go Arduino libraries Uses the license-free ISM band ('European ISM' @ 868 MHz or 'American ISM' @ 915 MHz) +13 to +20 dBm up to 100 mW Power Output Capability (power output selectable in software) 50 mA (+13 dBm) to 150 mA (+20 dBm) current draw for transmissions Range of approx. 350 meters, depending on obstructions, frequency, antenna and power output Create multipoint networks with individual node addresses Encrypted packet engine with AES-128 Simple wire antenna or spot for uFL connector Comes fully assembled and tested, with a USB bootloader that lets you quickly use it with the Arduino IDE. Headrs are also included so you can solder it in and plug into a solderless breadboard. You will need to cut and solder on a small piece of wire (any solid or stranded core is fine) in order to create your antenna. Lipoly battery and USB cable not included.

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Inside the RP2040 is a 'permanent ROM' USB UF2 bootloader. What that means is when you want to program new firmware, you can hold down the BOOTSEL button while plugging it into USB (or pulling down the RUN/Reset pin to ground) and it will appear as a USB disk drive you can drag the firmware onto. Folks who have been using Adafruit products will find this very familiar – Adafruit uses the technique on all thier native-USB boards. Just note you don't double-click reset, instead hold down BOOTSEL during boot to enter the bootloader! The RP2040 is a powerful chip, which has the clock speed of our M4 (SAMD51), and two cores that are equivalent to our M0 (SAMD21). Since it is an M0 chip, it does not have a floating point unit, or DSP hardware support – so if you're doing something with heavy floating-point math, it will be done in software and thus not as fast as an M4. For many other computational tasks, you'll get close-to-M4 speeds! For peripherals, there are two I²C controllers, two SPI controllers, and two UARTs that are multiplexed across the GPIO – check the pinout for what pins can be set to which. There are 16 PWM channels, each pin has a channel it can be set to (ditto on the pinout). Specifications Measures 2.0 x 0.9 x 0.28' (50.8 x 22.8 x 7 mm) without headers soldered in Light as a (large?) feather – 5 grams RP2040 32-bit Cortex M0+ dual core running at ~125 MHz @ 3.3 V logic and power 264 KB RAM 8 MB SPI FLASH chip for storing files and CircuitPython/MicroPython code storage. No EEPROM Tons of GPIO! 21 x GPIO pins with following capabilities: Four 12 bit ADCs (one more than Pico) Two I²C, Two SPI and two UART peripherals, one is labeled for the 'main' interface in standard Feather locations 16 x PWM outputs - for servos, LEDs, etc The 8 digital 'non-ADC/non-peripheral' GPIO are consecutive for maximum PIO compatibility Built in 200 mA+ lipoly charger with charging status indicator LED Pin #13 red LED for general purpose blinking RGB NeoPixel for full color indication. On-board STEMMA QT connector that lets you quickly connect any Qwiic, STEMMA QT or Grove I²C devices with no soldering! Both Reset button and Bootloader select button for quick restarts (no unplugging-replugging to relaunch code) 3.3 V Power/enable pin Optional SWD debug port can be soldered in for debug access 4 mounting holes 24 MHz crystal for perfect timing. 3.3 V regulator with 500mA peak current output USB Type C connector lets you access built-in ROM USB bootloader and serial port debugging RP2040 Chip Features Dual ARM Cortex-M0+ @ 133 MHz 264 kB on-chip SRAM in six independent banks Support for up to 16 MB of off-chip Flash memory via dedicated QSPI bus DMA controller Fully-connected AHB crossbar Interpolator and integer divider peripherals On-chip programmable LDO to generate core voltage 2 on-chip PLLs to generate USB and core clocks 30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be used as analog inputs Peripherals 2 UARTs 2 SPI controllers 2 I²C controllers 16 PWM channels USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support 8 PIO state machines Comes fully assembled and tested, with the UF2 USB bootloader. Adafruit also tosses in some header, so you can solder it in and plug it into a solderless breadboard.

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