New SensorTag 2 from TI, description and close up photos.

New SensorTag 2 from TI is really great Bluetooth 4LE Devkit boasting  10 Sensors and low power MCU

Today I got new toy from TI, it is CC2650STK SensorTag2 DevKit from Texas Instrument.

I was looking long for a device whcih is BLE4 powered and has sensors on it, I was playing with some chinese made SensorTag 1 clones, which were really lacking any documentation. And when I saw new DevKit from TI i was really happy to order 2 of them!

Here what SensorTag 2 is:

Features

• More sensors!
  • Adds support for more low power sensors
  • 10 sensors including support for light, digital microphone, magnetic sensor, humidity, pressure, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, object temperature, and ambient temperature
• Lower power
  • Longer battery life from your coin cell and enabler of battery less applications
• High performance ARM Cortex M3 (CC2650)
• Cloud connectivity
  • Access and control your SensorTag from anywhere
  • Seamless integration with mobile apps
• DevPacks allows you to expand the SensorTag to fit your designs
  • Interchangeable between all SensorTag types
• Complete development system
  • Expandable with $15 debug DevPack
  • Code Composer Studio compiler license included
• Extreme flexibility for IoT applications
  • Enable ZigBee or 6LoWPAN through a firmware upgrade

More information on SensorTag 2 can be obtained here: http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2650stk

And here is PDF with technical specs: http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/tidu862/tidu862.pdf

Here is unboxing and first impressions video:

And here video showing how to connect and obtain data on Android phone:

Also I made high resolution pictures of front and back of PCB:

Front:

Back: