Adafruit 1946 FONA Mini Cellular GSM Breakout UFL Version

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- Adafruit 1946, The Adafruit FONA Mini Cellular GSM Breakout u FL version could put your next project in touch with the world. Send & receive SMS messages & GPRS data, make & answer phone calls, & listen to FM radio. In fact enough functions to build a working phone, including driving a vibration motor & recharging a Li Po battery from the USB (Universal Serial Bus) power. The board needs a microcontroller to drive it & will work with anything that can send & receive serial data, from an Arduino to a Raspberry Pi. The example wiring uses only 4 x microcontroller pins, though you can probably get by with just Tx/ Rx. Adafruit have an FONA tutorial which demonstrates how to wire them up & interact with them using the AT command set from a serial terminal. While you're developing your application you can use a serial terminal to send commands & get responses so that you can see exactly what's happening. Supplied as a fully assembled board plus a 1 x 16 strip of 0.1in. male header pins for you to solder as required. You will also need a microcontroller with a serial UART (3 to 5V compliant), a 2G mini SIM card (15 x 25mm) to connect to a mobile network, a Li Po battery, a micro-USB cable to charge the battery & an external antenna with a u FL connector. Adafruit 1946 FONA Mini Cellular GSM Breakout u FL Version