The new prototypes have arrived!

The board now features a 16Mb SPI flash chip and DotStart Micro RGB LED (APA102-2020). These additions were inspired by CircuitPython. The flash chip gives much more space for your python programs and the LED is used by CircuitPython to show system status. 

Even though they were added for CircuitPython, you're not limited to how you use them. For example, go ahead and use the flash chip for logging data or turn your ThunderPack into a USB mass storage device. 

New Compact Board

The most exciting part of this update is the new compact board. Coming in at just around 4cm x 2cm (1.6" x 0.75"), this tiny board will fit about anywhere. To shrink it down as far as I could, I made it double-sided, with the switch and tactile user button on one side and pretty much everything else on the other. 

It has all the same features as the standard board, except:

• No onboard LEDs for the PWM outputs.
• External battery
• PWM outputs are limited to 1.4A per

Otherwise, it does everything else.

What's next?

I'm making a few more tweaks here and there and will be getting another round of prototype boards. If those go well, I'll submit a production run and sell the new boards through my tindie store.

Let me know what you think!