User Manual

If you have a Feather Crickit then the NeoPixels are driven by the seesaw chip on the Crickit, and you must send

seesaw commands to set colors. But that means no extra pins are needed from your Feather.

If you have a Circuit Playground Crickit then the NeoPixels are driven by the Circuit Playground A1 pad by

default. This way you can use the MakeCode emulator and built in Circuit Playground CircuitPython library.

However, if you want, you can cut the jumper underneath the Crickit and solder closed the ss pad so that the

seesaw chip controls the NeoPixels (for advanced hackers only).

If you have a micro:bit Crickit, NeoPixels are driven by Pin 16. You can use the NeoPixel Extension in MakeCode,

specify Pin 16 as the pin the NeoPixels are connected to and you're set. However, if you want, you can cut the

jumper underneath the Crickit and solder closed the ss pad so that the seesaw chip controls the NeoPixels (for

advanced hackers only).

If you choose to have the NeoPixel driven from the seesaw, note it is on seesaw pin #20

Adafruit sells a very wide variety of NeoPixel products - shop here in the Adafruit Store (https://adafru.it/dYn)!

Speaker Drive

Audio animatronics? Yes! Your Crickit can make fairly

loud sounds thanks to the built in Class-D speaker

driver. This will let you amplify audio. However please

note that the Crickit does not in-itself make audio. The

audio must come from the controlling board, such as the

Feather or Circuit Playground.

At this time, we recommend using the speaker with CircuitPython. MakeCode and Arduino can make tones but don't

have easy to use features such as WAV file support.

Class D audio amplifier

Can drive 4Ω to 8Ω speaker. Up to 3W with 4Ω and up to 1W with 8Ω

There's a small potentiometer you can use to adjust the audio volume. By default we set it to the halfway point.

Please be gentle if adjusting, don't try to crank it past the two stop-points.

Ouput is 5VDC BTL (bridge-tied-load) so do not connect to a stereo system or other line-input!

On the Circuit Playground Crickit the speaker is connected directly to the A0 pad (the analog output).

On the Feather Crickit the speaker input is marked Audio on the PCB and you can solder a jumper to the Feather

A0 pin if desired.

On the micro:bit Crickit, the speaker is connected to Pin 0, the standard micro:bit audio output pin.

Speakers to consider:

Thin Plastic Speaker (https://adafru.it/fHu) w/Wires - 8 ohm

Speaker (https://adafru.it/t1b) - 3" Diameter - 8 Ohm 1 Watt

Mini Metal Speaker (https://adafru.it/dDb) w/ Wires - 8 ohm 0.5W

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-crickit-creative-robotic-interactive-

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