Boron 2G/3G Kit

The Boron GSM is a powerful 2G/3G enabled development kit that can act as either a standalone cellular endpoint or 2G/3G enabled gateway for Particle Mesh networks. It is based on the Nordic nRF52840 and has built-in battery charging circuitry so it’s easy to connect a Li-Po and deploy your local network in minutes.

The Boron is great for connecting existing projects to the Particle Device Cloud or as a gateway to connect an entire group of local endpoints where Wi-Fi is missing or unreliable.

All Particle hardware is designed from the ground up to work with the Device Cloud; a powerful set of tools and infrastructure to build, connect, and manage your IoT fleet. The Device Cloud for Particle Mesh is priced by network. All Particle customers get 3 free months of Device Cloud access for micro networks using a cellular gateway. A micro network is defined as a network with 10 total devices and a single gateway. Please refer to our pricing documentation for more information.

Contents

• Boron 2G/3G dev board  (On-board SIM, no card necessary)
• Mini breadboard
• Cellular flex antenna
• 1800mAh Li-Po battery
• USB cable
• Starter project includes two resistors (220 ohm), one red LED, and one photodiode

Specs

• u-blox SARA U201 2G/3G modem
  • HSPA/GSMqq with global hardware and SIM support
  • 3GPP Release 7
  • Bands 800/850/900/1900/2100 MHz
• Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC
  • ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz
  • 1MB flash, 256KB RAM
  • IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps
  • Bluetooth 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 Kbps, 125 Kbps
  • Supports DSP instructions, HW accelerated Floating Point Unit (FPU) calculations
  • ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 Cryptographic and security module
  • Up to +8 dBm TX power (down to -20 dBm in 4 dB steps)
  • NFC-A tag
• On-board additional 2MB SPI flash
• 20 mixed signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 4 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
• Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)
• Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector
• JTAG (SWD) Connector
• RGB status LED
• Reset and Mode buttons
• Dual SIM support: nano 4FF and MFF2
• U.FL connector for external antenna
• Meet the Feather specification in dimensions and pinout
• FCC and PTCRB certified
• RoHS compliant (lead-free)