Hundreds of engineers around the world are using the nRF9160 Feather to jumpstart their IoT based projects. Projects like pet tracking, air quality detection, remote monitoring and control, and more. It’s capable of both CAT M1 LTE and NB-IoT cellular communication. Plus it’s designed to work with Zephyr RTOS the go-to RTOS for embedded development.

It’s also nice to your batteries. Not only can you take advantage of Nordic’s advanced power states, but you can also put the device into a low power standby state. Laboratory measurements are putting that mode at about <10 µA of current at 3.6V. It also features a low Iq 3.3V Buck which helps get every mWh from your battries as possible.

No batteries? No problem! You can plug or power your nRF9160 Feather externally for AC/DC powered operation. Keep it on at all times for high availability scenarios. Power it the 5V pin or insert a USB-C cable to keep things going.

Want to persist data? The nRF9160 Feather has a 4MB external flash for storing data while offline. Using external flash with a filesystem like LitteFS and you’ll have a project to recon with!

What people are saying

Here’s what some folks are saying about the nRF9160 Feather:

I really love this board, you’ve done a great job with it. - Steven

Props on the feather dude, I know it takes so much focus to take it where you’ve got it. Very impressed- documentation, forum, board, persistence. Very cool. - Dylan

It’s Certified and Assembled in the USA 🇺🇸!

The nRF9160 Feather is CE, FCC & ISED compliant.

Boards are fabricated in Taiwan and everything is assembled and tested right here in the USA.

No Programmer Necessary

You can load your applications directly to the nRF9160 Feather without an external programmer. That’s right, there are no extra costs associated with getting started with your nRF9160 Feather.

We’ve tweaked the MCUBoot boot-loader and command-line tools to boost loading speeds by 10x. This means loading via the boot-loader is nearly as fast as using an external programmer!

(Debugging and larger application sizes do require an external programming setup.)

Ready to roll out of the box

The nRF9160 Feather comes with a Hologram SIM ready for activation!

Open Source

The nRF9160 Feather has been reviewed and the results are in.

It now has the Open Source Hardware Association stamp of approval!

That means you’re able to view the source and build on the design yourself. All the Eagle files, PDF schematic, and 3D files are available for download today at the documentation website.

Licenses:

Hardware licensed with CERN 2.0 - weakly reciprocal
Firmware with Apache 2.0
Documentation with CC-SA-4.0.

Documentation and Community

Documentation is readily available and you can access it on docs.circuitdojo.com at any time.

Have questions/looking for support?

Check out the forum here. Also don’t forget about the documentation. Also please be sure to see the Terms and Conditions at the bottom of this page for more details on support.