The Adafruit Feather ecosystem is so rich with hardware diversity, we wanted to share them, one each day. Today is the Adafruit Feather 32u4 RFM96 LoRa Radio – 433MHz – RadioFruit!
This is the Adafruit Feather 32u4 LoRa Radio (RFM9x). We call these RadioFruits, our take on an microcontroller with a “Long Range (LoRa)” packet radio transceiver with built in USB and battery charging. Its an Adafruit Feather 32u4 with a 433 radio module cooked in! Great for making wireless networks that can go further than 2.4GHz 802.15.4 and similar, are more flexible than Bluetooth LE and without the high power requirements of WiFi.
Feather is the new development board from Adafruit, and like its namesake it is thin, light, and lets you fly! We designed Feather to be a standard for portable microcontroller cores.We have other boards in the Feather family, check’em out here.
This is the 433 MHz radio version. We also sell a 868/915 MHz version of the same radio chipset! And if you don’t need LoRa radio, we have plain 433MHz packet radios as well
At the Feather 32u4’s heart is at ATmega32u4 clocked at 8 MHz and at 3.3V logic, a chip setup we’ve had tons of experience with as it’s the same as the Flora. This chip has 32K of flash and 2K 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.
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The Adafruit Feather 32u4 with LoRa Radio Module Guide provides all the details and use examples.
Projects:
Would you like to see this Feather in action? Check out the project below:
In stock! You can buy the Adafruit Feather 32u4 RFM96 LoRa Radio – 433MHz – RadioFruit in the Adafruit shop.
