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* added xiao nRF52840 + xiao wio sx1262 DIY variant * fix path / make buildy buildy * pcf cruft from personal hw --------- Co-authored-by: Ben Meadors <benmmeadors@gmail.com>
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XIAO nRF52840 + XIAO Wio SX1262
For a mere doubling in price you too can swap out the XIAO ESP32C3 for a XIAO nRF52840, stack the Wio SX1262 radio board either above or underneath the nRF52840, solder the pins, and achieve a massive improvement in battery life!
I'm not really sure why else you would want to as the ESP32C3 is perfectly cromulent, easily connects to the Wio SX1262 via the B2B connector and has an onboard IPEX connector for the included Bluetooth antenna. So you'll also lose BT range, but you will also have working ADC for the battery in Meshtastic and also have an ESP32C3 to use for something else!
If you're still reading you are clearly gonna do it anyway, so...mount the Wio SX1262 either on top or underneath depending on your preference. The variant.h will work with either configuration though it does map the Wio SX1262's button to nRF52840 Pin D5 as it can still be used as a user button and it's nice to be able to gracefully shutdown a node by holding it down for 5 seconds.
If you do decide to wire up the button, orient it so looking straight-down at the Wio SX1262 the radio chip is at the bottom, button in the middle and the hole is at the top - the left side of the button should be soldered to GND (e.g. the 2nd pin down the top on the right row of pins) and the right side of the button should be soldered to D5 (e.g. the 2nd pin up from the button on the left row of pins.). This mirrors the original wiring and wiring it in reverse could end up connecting GND to voltage and that's no beuno.
Serial Pins remain available on D6 (TX) and D7 (RX) should you want to use them, The same pins could be repurposed for i2c if you would like to have that instead of serial, in variant.h you would just need to change:
// RX and TX pins
#define PIN_SERIAL1_RX (6)
#define PIN_SERIAL1_TX (7)
to
// RX and TX pins
#define PIN_SERIAL1_RX (-1)
#define PIN_SERIAL1_TX (-1)
and
#define PIN_WIRE_SDA (-1)
#define PIN_WIRE_SCL (-1)
// #define PIN_WIRE_SDA (6)
// #define PIN_WIRE_SCL (7)
to
#define PIN_WIRE_SDA (6)
#define PIN_WIRE_SCL (7)
If you wanted both serial and i2c you could even go so far as to use the pads for the PDM mic which is missing on the non-sense board (P1.00 / P0.16)... or move up to the nRF52840 Plus which has even more pins available but hasn't been checked/confirmed if it follows the same pin mapping as the non-plus.