I got the Fig Pi version, it has a lot going on for it. Fig Pi is a minifigure-sized development board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040, a built-in LED around back, a 3×3 matrix of RGB addressable LEDs on the front, two buttons; RESET and a BOOT/Programmable user button, and an extra 2MB of memory.
Connectors on the back give you power, UART, 2-I2C ports and a SPI port. Important to note these are the JST 1.0 / JST SH connectors. So they fit the Adafruit/Sparkfun/Pimoroni sets of sensors. And the USB mini port for programming.
I really like the 3x3 matrix, it makes the "blink a led" a little more fun. We wrote some code to read the thermometer and output it as tens dots -> ones dots -> blank pause -> repeat. Then added color to say if over 85F then dots are red then in ranges (orange, green, purple) down to less than 40F is blue. Fun exercise.
The battery is the small connection also, not a standard Amazon thing. If you don't want to roll your own connectors, try https://tinycircuits.com/collections/lipos (not associated with them, just a happy customer)
Well made board, cool design, nice collection of connectors to make more projects.
USB C would be nice, but it seems the footprint of the board connector has a big difference. The person that builds the boards is very responsive, if you have a use case and an order quantity contact him.
Connectors on the back give you power, UART, 2-I2C ports and a SPI port. Important to note these are the JST 1.0 / JST SH connectors. So they fit the Adafruit/Sparkfun/Pimoroni sets of sensors. And the USB mini port for programming.
I really like the 3x3 matrix, it makes the "blink a led" a little more fun. We wrote some code to read the thermometer and output it as tens dots -> ones dots -> blank pause -> repeat. Then added color to say if over 85F then dots are red then in ranges (orange, green, purple) down to less than 40F is blue. Fun exercise.
The battery is the small connection also, not a standard Amazon thing. If you don't want to roll your own connectors, try https://tinycircuits.com/collections/lipos (not associated with them, just a happy customer)
Well made board, cool design, nice collection of connectors to make more projects.