# Mini Sparkle Motion - WLED-friendly ESP32 NeoPixel LED Driver

**Type:** Product page · **SKU:** ADA6160 · **Brand:** [Adafruit](https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/adafruit-australia)
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The Adafruit Sparkle Motion Mini is part of our series of "Sparkle Motion" boards, that are our attempt to make the best small WLED-friendly...

## Pricing

- **Price:** $34.90 (inc GST) — $31.73 AUD, exc GST
- **Quantity discounts:** 10+ $30.77 (exc GST) · 50+ $30.15 (exc GST)

## Availability & dispatch

- In stock, ships same business day if ordered before 2PM (Australia/Sydney).
- We can dispatch 2 today, and up to 500 more in 8–12 days.

## Description

The **Adafruit Sparkle Motion Mini** is part of our series of "Sparkle Motion" boards, that are Adafruit's attempt to make the best small WLED-friendly smart LED driving board in the whole world. Adafruit's resident mermaid, [firepixie](https://learn.adafruit.com/u/firepixie) makes a lot of projects with WLED and she loves it! So how can Adafruit make something that will be powerful enough to drive advanced LED projects that need a compact design?

The **Mini** version of the Sparkle Motion is a simpler version of Adafruit's full-featured Sparkle Motion, Adafruit give up the high voltage support and built in IR receiver, in order to make it under 1 square inch in size! By using a 4-layer board and double-sided assembly Adafruit have put together this feature set:

- **Power via USB Type C for up to 5V 4A input -** you can use off-the-shelf USB battery packs for portable operation.
- **4 Amp resetting fuse** to protect from over-current drive
- **ESP32** mini module with built in antenna port - the classic ESP32 has the best WLED support even if we'd prefer the 'S2 or 'S3. Comes with 4 MB of flash, dual core 240MHz Tensilica, WiFi, Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth Classic support.
- **USB-serial converter** with auto-reset
- **Two output signals plus 5V power and ground** - both signal output are level shifted to 5V. These are on 0.1" spaced breakout pads. To keep the design slim Adafruit don't include terminal blocks pre-soldered, [but we do stock the matching blocks if you want them](https://core-electronics.com.au/2-54mm-0-1-pitch-terminal-block-4-pin.html)
- **Extra 2x3 0.1" breakout pads** with 4 more GPIO plus 3V power and ground.
- **Built-in I2S microphone**
- **Stemma QT I2C port** to connect external sensors/OLED/etc
- **User button on GPIO 0** plus Reset button
- **Red built-in LED** on pin 12
- **Small built-in NeoPixel** on pin 18
- **Separate analog/digital input JST port** for analog input, potentiometer, microphone or external IR receiver on pin 13
- **Compact enough you can use it for wearable projects** - 1.2"x0.8" / 30mm x 20mm size with mounting holes
 
While Adafruit recommend it for use with WLED, it will also work just fine as a compact ESP32 board for use with Arduino, ESP-IDF, MicroPython, CircuitPython or any other ESP32 supported codebase.

Note that unlike the classic Sparkle Motion board, we don't include terminal blocks pre-soldered to keep the board very slim. [We do stock the matching blocks if you want them](https://core-electronics.com.au/2-54mm-0-1-pitch-terminal-block-4-pin.html), a small amount of soldering is required to attach them. Also, unlike the bigger version, Adafruit dropped the on-board IR receiver - however its easy to add one by [plugging in a JST SH 3-pin socket cable](https://core-electronics.com.au/jst-sh-compatible-1mm-pitch-3-pin-to-premium-male-headers-cable-100mm-long.html) and [slotting in an IR receiver module](https://core-electronics.com.au/ir-sensor-tsop38238.html).

## Technical Details

Product Dimensions: 31.6mm x 19.8mm x 7.3mm / 1.2" x 0.8" x 0.3"

Product Weight: 3.1g / 0.1oz

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