Adafruit CRICKIT FeatherWing for any Feather (ID: 3343) Adafruit

DESCRIPTION

Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies. If they did, they’d know that making robots into slaves always ends up in a robot rebellion. Why even go down that path?

So if you find yourself wanting a companion, consider the robot. They’re fun to program, and you can get creative with decorations.

With that in mind, Adafruit designed Crickit – That’s our Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It’s an add-on to our popular Feather ecosystem that lets you #MakeRobotFriend using CircuitPython, MakeCode (coming soon), or Arduino.

Plug in any Feather mainboard you want into the centre, and you’re good to go! The Crickit is powered by seesaw, our I2C-to-whatever bridge firmware. So you only need to use two I2C data pins to control the huge number of inputs and outputs on the Crickit. All those timers, PWMs and sensors are offloaded to the co-processor.

The only thing that is not managed by seesaw is the audio output. They provide a small jumper you can solder to connect the audio amplifier to the first analogue pin. On the Feather M0’s this is a true analogue output (DAC) and you can play audio clips with CircuitPython or Arduino. Other Feathers may not have a DAC! In that case, you can solder a wire to jumper the audio amp to a PWM pin.

You get to use all the non-I2C signal pins on your feather and get a boat-load of extra in/out pins, motor controllers, capacitive touch sensors, a NeoPixel driver and amplified speaker output. It complements & extends your Feather so you can still use all the goodies, including stacking FeatherWings on top. But now you have a robotics playground as well.

Please Note: 

• You’ll need a Feather board as well as a power supply, these are not included.

FEATURES

 Includes:

• 4 x Analog or Digital Servo control, with precision 16-bit timers
• 2 x Bi-directional brushed DC motor control, 1 Amp current limited each, with 8-bit PWM speed control (or one stepper)
• 4 x High current “Darlington” 500mA drive outputs with kick-back diode protection. For solenoids, relays, large LEDs, or one unipolar stepper
• 4 x Capacitive touch sensors with alligator-pads
• 8 x Signal pins, digital in/out or analogue inputs
• 1 x NeoPixel driver with 5V level shifter – The NeoPixels are buffered and controlled by the seesaw chip
• 1 x Class D, 4-8 ohm speaker, 3W-max audio amplifier – the audio input pin is available as a solder-able pad for your configuration, you can connect it to your Feather’s DAC or PWM output as you desire.

RESOURCES

• Adafruit Guide