Thunderpack v1.1

by Jeremy Gillick

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A kick-ass microcontroller board with everything you need in a compact package that fits in your pocket. Integrated battery, power management system, Arm microcontroller, USB bootloader, 4 high-power PWM outputs, and 12 GPIOs.

Why? After years of wiring together portable LED controllers that all consisted of a lithum batter, charge controller, power switch, and an arduino nano (or similar), I wanted something better. I always found those versions to be janky and fragile – not to mention concerned that damaging the pouch cell battery might make it explode! This board has everything I need with room to expand.

Features

  • Ultra-low-power 32-bit microcontroller (STM32L072xx)
  • Integrated high-capacity 18650 lithium battery
  • 4 high-current PWM outputs (2.3A per channel!) with an LED on each for debugging.
  • 12 GPIOs, USART, I2C, SPI, USB
  • 6k EEPROM
  • USB bootloader
  • Tactile on/off switch
  • Tactile user button with built-in debounce circuit
  • Breadboard friendly
  • Durable AF! (Put a tube of heat shrink around it for a super easy case, if you’d like.)

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CircuitPython 9.0.1

This is the latest stable release of CircuitPython that will work with the Thunderpack v1.1.

Use this release if you are new to CircuitPython.

Release Notes for 9.0.1

Built-in modules available: _asyncio, _pixelmap, adafruit_bus_device, adafruit_pixelbuf, analogio, array, atexit, audiocore, audiomixer, audiomp3, audiopwmio, binascii, bitbangio, board, builtins, builtins.pow3, busdisplay, busio, busio.SPI, busio.UART, codeop, collections, digitalio, displayio, epaperdisplay, errno, fontio, fourwire, framebufferio, getpass, gifio, i2cdisplaybus, io, json, keypad, keypad.KeyMatrix, keypad.Keys, keypad.ShiftRegisterKeys, locale, math, microcontroller, msgpack, neopixel_write, nvm, onewireio, os, os.getenv, pulseio, pwmio, rainbowio, random, re, rtc, sdcardio, select, sharpdisplay, storage, struct, supervisor, sys, terminalio, time, touchio, traceback, usb_cdc, usb_hid, usb_midi, warnings

Absolute Newest

Every time we commit new code to CircuitPython we automatically build binaries for each board and language. The binaries are stored on Amazon S3, organized by board, and then by language. These releases are even newer than the development release listed above. Try them if you want the absolute latest and are feeling daring or want to see if a problem has been fixed.

Previous Versions of CircuitPython

All previous releases of CircuitPython are available for download from Amazon S3 through the button below. For very old releases, look in the OLD/ folder for each board. Release notes for each release are available at GitHub button below.

Older releases are useful for testing if you something appears to be broken in a newer release but used to work, or if you have older code that depends on features only available in an older release. Otherwise we recommend using the latest stable release.