Adafruit PyPortal

The Adafruit PyPortal is a ARM board based on the Microchip ATSAMD51J20A family of SoC.

The PyPortal also has an Espressif ESP32 Wi-Fi coprocessor with TLS/SSL support built-in. PyPortal has a 3.2″ 320 x 240 color TFT with resistive touch screen. PyPortal includes: speaker, light sensor, temperature sensor, NeoPixel, microSD card slot, 8MB flash, plug-in ports for I2C and 2 analog/digital pins,

Interfaces

Interface Hardware Supported TinyGo Support
GPIO YES YES
UART YES YES
SPI YES YES
I2C YES YES
ADC YES YES
PWM YES YES

Machine Package Docs

Documentation for the machine package for the Adafruit PyPortal

Flashing

UF2

The PyPortal comes with the UF2 bootloader already installed.

CLI Flashing on Linux

  • Plug your PyPortal into your computer’s USB port.

  • Flash your TinyGo program to the board using this command:

    tinygo flash -target=pyportal [PATH TO YOUR PROGRAM]

  • The PyPortal board should restart and then begin running your program.

CLI Flashing on macOS

  • Plug your PyPortal into your computer’s USB port.

  • Flash your TinyGo program to the board using this command:

    tinygo flash -target=pyportal [PATH TO YOUR PROGRAM]

  • The PyPortal board should restart and then begin running your program.

CLI Flashing on Windows

  • Plug your PyPortal into your computer’s USB port.

  • Flash your TinyGo program to the board using this command:

    tinygo flash -target=pyportal [PATH TO YOUR PROGRAM]

  • The PyPortal board should restart and then begin running your program.

Troubleshooting

If you have troubles getting your PyPortal board to receive code, try this:

  • Press the “RESET” button on the board two times to get the PyPortal board ready to receive code.
  • The PyPortal board will appear to your computer like a USB drive.
  • Now try running the command as above:
tinygo flash -target=pyportal [PATH TO YOUR PROGRAM]

Once you have updated your PyPortal board the first time, after that you should be able to flash it entirely from the command line.

Notes

You can use the USB port to the PyPortal as a serial port. UART0 refers to this connection.