Following on from the announcement availability of the Particle Xenon mesh enabled development board earlier this month. Adafruit has now announced the availability of the new Particle Boron LTE nRF52840 with Mesh and LTE cellular modem, which is priced at $55.
“Woohoo, it’s time for a Particle Mesh party! And the Particle Boron LTE is bringing it with a double-dose of Mesh and LTE Cellular – so you’re covered for network connectivity, no matter where you are. The Boron LTE is a powerful LTE CAT-M1/NB1 enabled development kit that can act as either a standalone cellular endpoint or LTE enabled gateway for Particle Mesh networks. It is based on the Nordic nRF52840, the Cortex M4 with a ton of Flash, RAM and peripherals, including native USB support.”
Specifications of the Particle Boron LTE nRF52840
u-blox SARA R410 LTE modem
– LTE CAT M1/ NB1 module with global hardware support (MVNO support for US only)
– 3GPP Release 13 LTE Cat M1
Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC
– ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz
– 1MB flash, 256KB RAM
– IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps
– Bluetooth 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 Kbps, 125 Kbps
– Supports DSP instructions, HW accelerated Floating Point Unit (FPU) calculations
– ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 Cryptographic and security module
– Up to +8 dBm TX power (down to -20 dBm in 4 dB steps)
– NFC-A tag
On-board additional 2MB SPI flash
20 mixed signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)
Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector
JTAG (SWD) Connector
RGB status LED
Reset and Mode buttons
Dual SIM support: Nano 4FF (unpopulated) and MFF2
U.FL connector for external antenna
Meets the Feather specification in dimensions and pinout
FCC and PTCRB certified
RoHS compliant (lead-free)
Jump over to the Adafruit store for purchasing options and more details.
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