Embedded electronics specialist LILYGO has launched a brand new all-in-one improvement board in a type issue acquainted to any BlackBerry customers: the Espressif ESP32-S3-powered T-Deck.
Designed to be used in handheld initiatives, the LILYGO T-Deck combines the corporate’s current BlackBerry-style T-Keyboard enter gadget with its personal devoted Espressif ESP32-C3, full with compact trackball, with a full-color IPS 320×240 ST7789-based SPI touchscreen show. There’s an amplified speaker on board and never one however two MEMS microphones — that means it is practical as a communications gadget, if that is what you’d prefer to construct, although the microphones are positioned to both aspect of the board relatively than down the place you’d converse if it had been a cellphone.
LILYGO’s newest improvement board pays homage to basic BlackBerry mobile handsets. (📷: LILYGO)
The rear of the gadget, delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program, homes an Espressif ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module — pre-dating the corporate’s choice to maneuver to processor cores constructed across the free and open-source RISC-V structure and as a substitute providing two Tensilica Xtensa LX7 cores operating at as much as 240MHz, 512kB of on-chip static RAM (SRAM), and a further 8MB of off-chip pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM) plus 16MB of SPI flash storage expandable with microSD playing cards.
For connectivity, Espressif’s module affords Wi-Fi 4 single-board 2.4GHz connectivity together with Bluetooth 5.0 Low Vitality (BLE), with LILYGO additionally providing an non-compulsory LoRa transceiver module constructed on Semtech’s SX1262 for low-power long-range communications. There is a USB Sort-C port for energy and information, plus a four-pin UART Grove connector for growth. There’s additionally a connector for a lithium-polymer battery, full with on-board charging circuit, although one is just not provided as customary.
An non-compulsory LoRa module (bottom-right) affords low-power long-range communications capabilities. (📷: LILYGO)
The T-Deck is now obtainable to order on the official LILYGO retailer at $42.66; including the LoRa transceiver ups the worth to $50.48. Schematics, a 3D-printable case design, binary-blob firmware, and code examples revealed underneath the permissive MIT license can be found on the venture’s GitHub repository.
