Adafruit PyGamer

The Adafruit PyGamer is a ARM development board based on the Atmel ATSAMD51J19A family of SoC.

It has many built-in devices, such as a 1.8" 160x128 Color TFT Display, a dual-potentiometer analog stick, 4 x square-top buttons, 5 x NeoPixel LED, a triple-axis accelerometer, a light sensor, and a speaker. The PyGamer uses the ST7735 display, so you may use the tinygo-org st7735 driver. The accelerometer is the LIS3DH so you may use the tinygo lis3dh driver.

Interfaces

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

Pins

Pin Hardware pin Alternative names PWM
D0 PB17 UART_RX_PIN TCC3 (channel 1), TCC0 (channel 5)
D1 PB16 UART_TX_PIN TCC3 (channel 0), TCC0 (channel 4)
D2 PB03 A8 TCC2 (channel 3)
D3 PB02 A9 TCC2 (channel 2)
D4 PA14 TCC2 (channel 0), TCC1 (channel 2)
D5 PA16 TCC1 (channel 0), TCC0 (channel 4)
D6 PA18 TCC1 (channel 2), TCC0 (channel 6)
D7 PB14 SD_CS TCC4 (channel 0), TCC0 (channel 2)
D8 PA15 NEOPIXELS, WS2812 TCC2 (channel 1), TCC1 (channel 3)
D9 PA19 TCC1 (channel 3), TCC0 (channel 7)
D10 PA20 TCC1 (channel 4), TCC0 (channel 0)
D11 PA21 TCC1 (channel 5), TCC0 (channel 1)
D12 PA22 TCC1 (channel 6), TCC0 (channel 2)
D13 PA23 LED TCC1 (channel 7), TCC0 (channel 3)
A0 PA02
A1 PA05
A2 PB08
A3 PB09
A4 PA04 UART2_TX_PIN
A5 PA06 UART2_RX_PIN
A6 PB01
A7 PB04 LIGHTSENSOR
BUTTON_LATCH PB00
BUTTON_OUT PB30 TCC4 (channel 0), TCC0 (channel 6)
BUTTON_CLK PB31 TCC4 (channel 1), TCC0 (channel 7)
JOYY PB06
JOYX PB07
TFT_DC PB05
TFT_CS PB12 TCC3 (channel 0), TCC0 (channel 0)
TFT_RST PA00
TFT_LITE PA01
SPEAKER_ENABLE PA27
USBCDC_DM_PIN PA24 TCC2 (channel 2)
USBCDC_DP_PIN PA25 TCC2 (channel 3)
SDA_PIN PA12 TCC0 (channel 6), TCC1 (channel 2)
SCL_PIN PA13 TCC0 (channel 7), TCC1 (channel 3)
SPI0_SCK_PIN PA17 TCC1 (channel 1), TCC0 (channel 5)
SPI0_SDO_PIN PB23
SPI0_SDI_PIN PB22
SPI1_SCK_PIN PB13 TCC3 (channel 1), TCC0 (channel 1)
SPI1_SDO_PIN PB15 TCC4 (channel 1), TCC0 (channel 3)
QSPI_SCK PB10 TCC0 (channel 4), TCC1 (channel 0)
QSPI_CS PB11 TCC0 (channel 5), TCC1 (channel 1)
QSPI_DATA0 PA08 TCC0 (channel 0), TCC1 (channel 4)
QSPI_DATA1 PA09 TCC0 (channel 1), TCC1 (channel 5)
QSPI_DATA2 PA10 TCC0 (channel 2), TCC1 (channel 6)
QSPI_DATA3 PA11 TCC0 (channel 3), TCC1 (channel 7)

Machine Package Docs

Documentation for the machine package for the Adafruit PyGamer

Flashing

UF2

The PyGamer comes with the UF2 bootloader already installed.

CLI Flashing

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

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

    tinygo flash -target=pygamer [PATH TO YOUR PROGRAM]
    
  • The PyGamer board should restart and then begin running your program.

Troubleshooting

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

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

Once you have updated your PyGamer 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 PyGamer as a serial port. UART0 refers to this connection.