Crow PyBoard + Shield

The Crow Pyboard is a powerful electronics development board which runs MicroPython. Connecting it to your PC via USB, and giving you a USB flash drive on which to save your Python scripts, and a serial Python prompt for instant programming. With the Crow Pyboard you gain a low-level Python operating system that you are able to use to control plenty of different electronics projects. The base shield is designed for Pyboard, and the interfaces on this shield is compastible with Pyboard, which makes it easier to use the Pyboard with Crowtail module.



At its heart, the Crow Pyboard possesses a STM32F405RG microcontroller with a 168 MHz Cortex M4 CPU, 1024KiB flash ROM, and 192KiB of RAM. Each pyboard is also equipped with a microUSB connector for power and serial communications, a microSD card slot, an MMA7660 3-axis accelerometer, 31 GPIO, four LEDs, a reset switch and a user switch.




MicroPython is a complete rewrite of the Python (version 3.4) programming language so that it fits and runs on a microcontroller. It includes many optimizations so that it runs efficiently and uses very little RAM. Additionally, MicroPython runs bare-metal on the pyboard, and essentially gives you a Python operating system. The built-in pyboard module contains functions and classes to control the peripherals available on the board, such as UART, I2C, SPI, ADC and DAC.

Quick Spec

• Microcontroller: STM32F405RG
• 168MHz Cortex M4 CPU with hardware floating point
• 1024KiB flash ROM and 192KiB RAM
• 3x 12-bit analog to digital converters, available on 16 pins, 4 with analog ground shielding
• 2x 12-bit digital to analog (DAC) converters, available on pins X5 and X64 LEDs (red, green, yellow and blue)
• 3-axis accelerometer (MMA7660)
• 1 reset and 1 user switch
• Onboard 3.3V LDO voltage regulator, capable of supplying up to 250mA, input voltage range 3.6V to 16V

Resources

• Product Page
• Quick Reference for Pyboard
• Tutorial

Shipping List

• 1 x Crow PyBoard
• 1 x Crowtail- Base Shield for Pyboard