The Blues Starter Kit contains everything you need to start building connected solutions with the Notecard and Notehub.io. Start with LTE Cat-1 cellular or Wi-Fi and build your first MCU-powered app with the Notecarrier F and Swan. Or connect the Notecard to a Raspberry Pi or Pi-compatible SBC using the included Pi Hat.
Kit Contents:
- LTE Cat-1 EMEA Notecard
- Wi-Fi Notecard
- Notecarrier F
- Swan 3.0
- Notecarrier Pi Hat
- Molex flexible dual Wi-Fi and Cellular Antenna
LTE Cat-1 Notecard – EMEA is designed to be used in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) regions and uses Quectel EG91-EX modem which connects to LTE Cat-1 / WCDMA / GSM networks.
LTE Cat-1 Specs:
- Integrated Quectel cellular modem.
- Secure element with a factory-installed ECC P-384 certificate provisioned at chip manufacture.
- Integrated GPS and Accelerometer.
- Designed operate on battery power, be "always-on" to maintain time & location, while typically drawing less than 8µA, when idle.
- Bundled with 10-years and 500MB of cellular data. No cellular subscriptions, SIM fees or monthly minimums apply.
- PTCRB Certified Module.
Wi-Fi Notecard Specs:
- Integrated Silicon Labs Wi-Fi Transceiver.
- Secure element with a factory-installed ECC P-384 certificate provisioned at chip manufacture.
- Designed to operate on battery power, be "always-on" to maintain time & location, while typically drawing less than 8µA, when idle.
- Battery-powered Wi-Fi without the complexity of managing connections, queues, or storage.
- Utilizes an extremely thin cloud infrastructure that directly routes your data to where it belongs: AWS, Azure, GCS, or your own cloud.
- Data routing and simple "no code/low code" visual data stream analysis through Notehub.io (SaaS), or host and integrate Notehub functionality into your own app (OSS).
Notecarrier F is a companion development board designed for quick prototyping with Adafruit Feather-based microcontrollers. It can be used with any Feather-compatible device and includes Qwiic ports for connecting I2C peripherals.
Notecarrier F Specs:
- Adafruit Feather compatible header socket.
- Breadboard compatible Notecard 13-pin header.
- Breadboard compatible 24-pin Adafruit Feather breakout header.
- Notecard edge connector socket and mounting screw receptacle.
- Micro-USB port to power Notecarrier and provide a USB Serial command interface to Notecard.
- External Nano-SIM slot for additional carrier connectivity.
- 2 Qwiic/StemmaQT I2C ports for attaching external peripherals to your project.
- JST PH connector for a LiPo battery.
- JST PH connector for a solar panel.
- JST PH connector for V+
- JST SH 3.3V I2C connector.
- Battery slide switch to disconnect battery when not in use.
- Momentary button connected to Feather B0 pin.
- Front and back pin labels
Swan is a low-cost, embeddable STM32L4-based microcontroller designed to accelerate the development and deployment of battery-powered IoT solutions. It is especially useful for applications requiring large memory or a high degree of I/O expandability at an affordable cost, such as edge inferencing and remote monitoring.
Swan 3.0 Specs:
- Ultra low-power Arm Cortex-M4 core clocked at 120Mhz
- STM32L4R5-based microcontroller
- 2MB of flash and 640KB of RAM
- Castellated-edge access to 55 GPIO ports including:
- 8 analog
- 16 digital
- 4x I2C, 3x SPI
- USB OTG full speed
- 1x 14-channel DMA
- tRNG
- 12-bit ADC, 2 x 12-bit DAC
- low-power RTC, and CRC calculation peripherals
- Qwiic connector
- Outboard DFU Support
Notecarrier-Pi Hat is designed for drop-in development with a Raspberry Pi or compatible Single Board Computer. It includes a pre-soldered female 40-pin header connector for plugging directly into the Raspberry Pi, and a 40-pin connector on top for stacking other Pi “hats” and devices. It also includes a single Grove I2C port for attaching external peripherals to your project.
Notecarrier Pi Hat Specs:
- M.2 Key E edge connector port and screw-down port for Notecard.
- 1 Grove I2C port for attaching external peripherals to your project.
- Pre-soldered female 40-pin header connector for plugging directly into a Pi or another Pi hat.
- Pre-soldered male 40-pin header connector for stacking additional Pi hats.
- Slot for external Micro SIM for external carrier connectivity.
Molex Antenna has a supported frequency range of 698 MHz to 3.8 GHz and a u.FL terminator, this Molex Flexible antenna is the quickest way to get your Cellular or Wi-FI Notecard online.
Molex Antenna Specs:
- Manufacturer - Molex
- Datasheet
- Length - 85 mm
- Width - 14.5 mm
- Height - 0.1 mm
- Cable length - 180 mm
- Cable Type - 180 mm Coax
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