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Crickit: Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit

By on May 21, 2018
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Adafruit has announced it will soon be launching its new Adafruit Crickit development board designed for Circuit Playground Express.
The new board has been designed as an add-on development board for the popular Circuit Playground Express to aid with the construction of robots supporting CircuitPython, MakeCode (coming soon), or Arduino.

“The Crickit is powered by seesaw, our I2C-to-whatever bridge firmware. So you only need to use two data pins to control the huge number of inputs and outputs on the Crickit. All those timers, PWMs, sensors are offloaded to the co-processor.

You get:

  • 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 uni-polar stepper
  • 4 x Capacitive touch sensors with alligator-pads
  • 8 x Signal pins, digital in/out or analog inputs
  • 1 x NeoPixel driver with 5V level shifter
  • 1 x Class D, 4-8 ohm speaker, 3W-max audio amplifier

All are powered via 5V DC, so you can use any 5V-powered servos, DC motors, steppers, solenoids, relays etc. To keep things simple and safe, we don’t support mixing voltages, so only 5V, not for use with 9V or 12V robotic components.”

Just take a look at Adafruit website for further information and to be notified as soon as stock arrives.

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