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Electron 2G Kit (Global)
The Particle Electron 2G Kit is a cellular-connected development kit for building IoT projects that communicate over 2G GSM networks. It comes with a Particl...
The Particle Electron 2G Kit is a cellular-connected development kit for building IoT projects that communicate over 2G GSM networks. It comes with a Particle SIM card supporting over 100 countries, 3 months of Particle's 1 MB monthly data plan, and everything you need to start prototyping — including a breadboard, battery, and sample components.
The kit includes access to Particle's cloud platform and development tools for managing, updating, and monitoring your connected devices over the air.
Key Features
- STM32F205 ARM Cortex-M3 – Powerful microcontroller with 1 MB flash and 128 KB RAM
- U-Blox SARA G-Series Modem – 2G cellular connectivity
- Particle SIM Card – Service in 100+ countries included
- 3 Months Data Included – 1 MB/month plan (thousands of messages)
- 36 Pins – 28 GPIO (D0–D13, A0–A13), TX/RX, power, and control pins
- Particle Cloud Platform – OTA updates, device management, and monitoring
- Li-Po Battery Included – 2000 mAh for portable deployments
Specifications
- Processor – STM32F205 ARM Cortex-M3
- Flash – 1 MB
- RAM – 128 KB
- Cellular – U-Blox SARA G-series (2G GSM)
- GPIO – 28 (D0–D13, A0–A13)
- Dimensions – 50.8 × 20.3 × 7.6 mm (2.0 × 0.8 × 0.3″)
Ideal For
- Remote IoT sensor deployments with cellular connectivity
- Asset tracking and environmental monitoring
- Prototyping connected products
- Learning cellular IoT development
Kit Contents
- 1× Particle Electron PCB
- 1× Particle SIM Card
- 1× Li-Po Battery (2000 mAh)
- 1× USB Cable
- 1× Breadboard
- 1× Pinout Reference Card
- Components for a sample project
- 3 months of Particle's 1 MB monthly data plan (delivered by email)
Resources
Jargon buster
Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- GPIO
- General-purpose input/output pins are microcontroller pins you can set in software to read signals, switch devices on and off, or connect to peripherals. The number of GPIO pins matters because it limits how many buttons, LEDs, sensors, and other parts you can wire directly to the board.
- IoT
- Short for Internet of Things, meaning physical devices that connect to networks or the internet to send data or be controlled remotely. It matters if you want projects such as connected sensors, remote controls or classroom data-logging activities.
- microcontroller
- A microcontroller is a small computer on a chip that runs your program and controls connected inputs and outputs. For this product, it is the part that reads buttons and sensors, drives the display and speaker, and communicates over Bluetooth.
- OTA
- OTA means over-the-air updating, where firmware is updated wirelessly instead of through a programming cable. It matters because you may be able to update or maintain the module after it is installed in a project.
- PCB
- A printed circuit board is a rigid board with copper tracks that connect electronic parts without loose wires. For this kit, the PCBs also form the airplane shape, so they are both the circuit base and part of the finished model.
- RAM
- RAM is temporary memory used while a device is running, and its contents are lost when power is removed. A “Run in RAM” mode is useful for testing settings without permanently programming the module, but it may not support every feature.
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