Adafruit CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express (ID: 3093)

Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies. If they did, they'd know that making robots into slaves always ends up in a robot rebellion. Why even go down that path?

So if you find yourself wanting a companion, consider the robot. They're fun to program, and you can get creative with decorations.

With that in mind, Adafruit designed Crickit - That's the Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It's an add-on to the popular Circuit Playground Express that lets you #MakeRobotFriend using CircuitPython, MakeCode (coming soon), or Arduino.

Bolt on your Circuit Playground using the included stand-off bolts and start controlling motors, servos, and solenoids. You also get signal pins, capacitive touch sensors, a NeoPixel driver and amplified speaker output. It complements & extends the Circuit Playground so you can still use all the goodies on the CPX, but now you have a robotics playground as well.

The Crickit is powered by seesaw, the I2C-to-whatever bridge firmware. So you only need to use two data pins to control the huge number of inputs and outputs on the Crickit. All those timers, PWMs, and sensors are offloaded to the co-processor.

Please Note: 

• You'll need a Circuit Playground Express and a power supply as these are not included.

Includes:

• 4 x Analogue or Digital Servo control, with precision 16-bit timers
• 2 x Bi-directional brushed DC motor control, 1 Amp current limited each, with 8-bit PWM speed control (or one stepper)
• 4 x High current "Darlington" 500mA drive outputs with kick-back diode protection. For solenoids, relays, large LEDs, or one unipolar stepper
• 4 x Capacitive touch sensors with alligator-pads
• 8 x Signal pins, digital in/out or analogue inputs
• 1 x NeoPixel driver with 5V level shifter
• 1 x Class D, 4-8 ohm speaker, 3W-max audio amplifier

•  Adafruit Guide