Thunderboard Sense 2: Advanced IoT Development Kit by Silicon Labs
Thunderboard Sense 2 is a brand new feature-rich development board offered by Silicon Labs that provides a quick path to develop and prototype IoT applications such as battery-powered wireless sensor nodes. The board has a range of sensors and comes equipped with powerful multi-protocol EFR32 radio and Bluetooth connectivity. Thunderboard Sense 2 also has an on-board J-Link debugger and is fully supported in Simplicity Studio. You can also connect the board to a mobile app with Bluetooth for connecting it to the cloud.
With Thunderboard Sense 2 collecting environmental and motion data becomes very easy. Thunderboard Sense kits support multiprotocol wireless connectivity including Bluetooth®, Thread, and Zigbee, and its sleek design is supported by free online analytics dashboard and open source mobile apps.
Thunderboard Sense 2 Onboard Specifications
Wireless Gecko EFR32™
- Wireless SoC with multi-protocol radio
- ARM® Cortex® M4 core with 256 kB RAM and 1024 kB Flash
- Low Energy Consumption
- Flexible MCU peripheral interfaces
Kit Features
- 2.4 GHz radio configuration with on-board antenna
- Segger J-Link Integrated Debugger
- USB CDC virtual serial port
- 8 Mbit SPI ultra-low
- power NOR flash for local storage
Sensors, I/O, and Misc. Control
- Relative Humidity and Temperature Sensor Si7021
- UV and Ambient Light Sensor Si1133
- Pressure Sensor BMP280
- Indoor Air Quality and Gas Sensor CCS811
- 6-axis Inertial Sensor ICM-20648
- Digital Microphone ICS-43434
- High brightness LEDs
- Hall-effect Sensor Si7210
Thunderboard Sense 2 AddOn Features
Mobile App
- Mobile app for Android and iOS
- iOS app implemented in swift
- Android app implanted in native code
- Source code available at GitHub
Mobile App Features
- View sensor data
- Control LEDs and detect button pushes
- Stream sensor data to the cloud
Cloud Streaming
- Data is stored in Firebase
- The web frontend is implemented in ReactJS
- Using Alt.js as the flux implementation
- D3.js for data-driven charts
- All source code available
Priced at under 20$, I must say this is one of the best IoT and general-purpose development boards in the market today.
