Adafruit Feather 32u4 FONA

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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 new standard for portable microcontroller cores.

This is the Adafruit Feather 32u4 FONA - our take on an 'all-in-one' Arduino-compatible + audio/sms/data capable cellular with built in USB and battery charging. Its an Adafruit Feather 32u4 with a FONA800 module, ready to rock! We have other boards and accessories in the Feather family, check'em out here.

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.

Since you'll be taking this on the road, we added a connector for any of our 3.7V Lithium polymer batteries and built in battery charging. A 500mAh+ Lipoly battery is required for use, it keeps the cellular module happy during the high current spikes. Plug the Feather into microUSB to charge at 500mA.

Here's some handy specs! Like all Feather 32u4's you get:

  • Measures 2.4" x 0.9" x 0.28" (61mm x 23mm x 7mm) without headers soldered in
  • Light as a (large?) feather - 8.2 grams
  • ATmega32u4 @ 8MHz with 3.3V logic/power
  • 3.3V regulator with 500mA peak current output
  • USB native support, comes with USB bootloader and serial port debugging
  • You also get tons of pins - 20 GPIO pins
  • Hardware Serial, hardware I2C, hardware SPI support
  • 7 x PWM pins
  • 10 x analog inputs
  • Built in 500mA lipoly charger with charging status indicator LED
  • Pin #13 red LED for general purpose blinking
  • Power/enable pin for the 3.3V regulator
  • 4 mounting holes
  • Reset button

Connect your Feather to the Internet or make phone calls with our trusted-and-tested FONA module. At the heart is a GSM cellular module (we use the latest SIM800) the size of a postage stamp. This module can do just about everything. 

  • Quad-band 850/900/1800/1900MHz - connect onto any global GSM network with any 2G SIM (in the USA, T-Mobile is suggested)
  • Make and receive voice calls using an external 8Ω speaker + electret microphone
  • Send and receive SMS messages
  • Send and receive GPRS data (TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.)
  • Scan and receive FM radio broadcasts (yeah, we don't exactly know why this was included but it works really well)
  • AT command interface with "auto baud" detection
  • Pair-able Bluetooth client interface with SPP (for controlling the module) as well as audio.

You will also need some required accessories to make Feather FONA work. These are not included!

Check out our tutorial for all sorts of details, including schematics, files, IDE instructions, power management and more!

 



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04/06/2016
Daniel
Victoria, Australia

Very small phone

The size of this is awesome. About the length of an 18650 battery, with a similar width, it's good for small projects. Your battery will most likely be larger. An important note: You must use this with a battery, even when testing. The USB port is only for charging and programming. Without the battery, the board may reset uncontrollably. I recommend being very careful if you decide to solder wires to the speaker and mic holes. They are very close to each other, and are difficult to work with. Headers may be the best option. You must also change to the external speaker in your code. Otherwise there will be no sound. And as Adafruit recommends, turn the volume to 0 when your not using the speaker to avoid board resets. Some other settings must also be changed, like the default pin numbers in the example sketch. It is difficult to set a custom baud rate, as it doesn't tend to save even with the right AT codes. I couldn't get 57600 to work, so smaller values may be necessary. The test sketch takes about 97% of program memory, so don't include anything you won't use.

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