SparkFun Photon Battery Shield

Description

The SparkFun Photon Battery Shield provides you with an easy way to power your Photon module with a Lithium polymer battery. Not only can the Battery Shield be you Photon but you will also be able to charge LiPo bettery through it as well. The board comes with a JST connector for your single cell LiPo battery and uses the on-board Photons micro-USB connector for the charge input.

This battery shield uses a MCP73831 for LiPo charging and a MAX1704X for fuel gauging. You need it! Where is it? The SparkFun Photon Battery Shield comes with the headers already soldered on, so you can plug and play!

The Particle Photon is a tiny WiFi development kit for creating connected projects and products. Sporting at 120Mhz ARM Cortex M3 and built-in WiFi, the Photon is not only powerful, but easy to use. The small form factor is ideal for IoT projects with cloud-connectivity.

Notes: Not only can this shield operate with the Photon, it can also be used with the Particle Core! We understand that there are a ton of you out there who still haven't been able to get your hands on a Photon yet and would like to start playing with this shield now. If that person is you we hope we have obliged!

Features:

Headers and Connectors Pre-Soldered
Compatible with the Photon and the Core

documents:

Schematic
Eagle Files
Hookup Guide
Photon Development Guide
Datasheets

MCP73831
MAX1704X

GitHub

Product information