Next-Gen IoT: SparkFun, Digi X-ON & Pi 5
New week, new year, new IoT products! From LoRaWAN® to Raspberry Pi 5, SparkFun is ready to supply all your 2025 needs!
Hello everyone and welcome to the all new SparkFun.com! We hope you are all enjoying the face-lift our wonderful website received this week and we thank you for your patience as we update our site and bring it fully online and operational for you. This week we have four new products to show off, three of which you may have seen on Monday morning on our site. Or, if you were at CES this week, you would have seen them at the Digi International booth! The all new SparkFun IoT Node for LoRaWAN® board and SparkFun Digi X-ON Kits for LoRaWAN® bring an entirely new level of usability to the often convoluted and configuration intensive effort to setup a LoRaWAN®-based IoT device. After that, we have a new Raspberry Pi 5 board with 16GB of LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM. Let's jump in and take a closer look at this week's new products!
Aimed at accelerating end-node creation and deployment via a number of streamlined hardware and software features, these products are designed to simplify LoRaWAN® setup for developers and professionals!
$99.95
$49.95
The SparkFun IoT Node for LoRaWAN® development board brings an entirely new level of usability to the often convoluted and configuration-intensive effort to set up a LoRaWAN®-based IoT Device. Combining the ease of LoRaWAN® setup and configuration delivered by the Digi X-ON™ system with the rapid prototyping provided by the SparkFun Qwiic ecosystem, the SparkFun IoT Node for LoRaWAN® development board accelerates IoT end-node creation and deployment.
Please keep in mind that this board features a special introductory price of $49.95 while our initial stock is still available! After our initial amount of boards have sold out, the price will increase to its normal price of $99.95.
With the integration of Digi X-ON technology, the SparkFun IoT Node for LoRaWAN® board allows the creation and deployment of a LoRaWAN® IoT sensor in minutes.
- Set up the Digi HX15 Gateway for LoRaWAN® and corresponding Digi account.
- Register the IoT Node – LoRaWAN® board quickly using the digital data block on the module.
- Add the antenna and a supported Qwiic sensor to the Node board
- Power the board
The SparkFun IoT Node for LoRaWAN® board is shipped with firmware installed that automatically connects to Digi X-ON, detects an attached sensor, and posts data to the X-ON cloud. Configured via a serial console connection, this application allows rapid evaluation and creation of a LoRaWAN® IoT device.
In addition to the pre-installed firmware, full software customization and development are supported with the IoT Node for LoRaWAN® board.
The Sparkfun Digi X-ON Kits for LoRaWAN® (North America) and (Europe) contains everything you need to get an IoT system up and running within minutes. Containing an HX15 Gateway from Digi, the innovative SparkFun IoT Node for LoRaWAN® board, and SparkFun's dual-action ENS160/BME280 (Qwiic) Environmental Combo Board, this kit takes the often convoluted and configuration-intensive effort to set up a LoRaWAN®-based IoT Device. Each of these kits make it a breeze to get set up and connected.
The kits also include a free 30-day subscription to Digi X-ON™ device management platform and free cellular connectivity!
These kits are now available for pre-order.
The next iteration of the Raspberry Pi single board computer featuring a 64-bit quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor running at 2.4GHz, Raspberry Pi 5 delivers a 2–3× increase in CPU performance relative to Raspberry Pi 4. Alongside a substantial uplift in graphics performance from an 800MHz VideoCore VII GPU; dual 4Kp60 display output over HDMI; and state-of-the-art camera support from a rearchitected Raspberry Pi Image Signal Processor, it provides a smooth desktop experience for consumers, and opens the door to new applications for industrial customers. This module features 16GB of LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM.
That's it for this week. As always, we can't wait to see what you make! Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or let us know on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn. Please be safe out there, be kind to one another! Happy hacking!
