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download pillbug PillBug Download PillBug MechWild
https://mechwild.com/product/pillbug/
pillbug.jpg 2022-11-10 true nrf52840 pillbug
Battery Charging
Bluetooth/BTLE
Breadboard-Friendly
USB-C

The PillBug is a BLE enabled development board powered by the nRF52840 that is designed to be a drop in replacement for the stm32f401/stm32f411 blackpill development board. This board was designed for compatibility with blackpill driven keyboards and will work as a simple replacement in most cases. The PillBug features 3.7V Li-Ion battery charger, a software controlled hardware cutoff for powering peripherals, a controllable status LED, and compatibility with blackpill's pinouts for I2C/SPI/UART.

Technical details

  • BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) capable
  • nRF52840 powered with 1MB Flash memory and 256KB RAM
  • Preloaded Adafruit nRF52 Bootloader utlizing UF2 and DFU flashing options
  • Software controlled blue status LED that can be configured by application
  • Hardware controlled charging red status LED
  • 3.3V GPIO logic and power provided through VCC pins
  • Software controlled MOSFET to disable providing power through the power pins to external peripherals
  • 30 Total GPIO pins in an easy to use and breadboard friendly layout
  • RTC (real-time clock) capabilities provided through use of 32.768kHz oscillator (necessary for BlE)

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