Blinka support for the Arduino Ventuno Q

[jamescoledesign]

The Arduino Ventuno Q includes the same 40-pin header as the Raspberry Pi (listed here) , but Binka does not recognize the board and throws an error.

I ran into this issue when trying to use the Adafruit DC & Stepper Motor Bonnet and the example code modified for the Ventuno Q's app structure (code below). In this setup, adafruit_blinka, adafruit_motor, and adafruit-platformdetect are installed in a venv within the app's python directory.

./python/main.py

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 ladyada for Adafruit Industries
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

"""Simple test for using adafruit_motorkit with a DC motor"""

import time
import board
from adafruit_motorkit import MotorKit
from arduino.app_utils import App

kit = MotorKit(i2c=board.I2C())

def loop():
    kit.motor1.throttle = 1.0
    time.sleep(0.5)
    kit.motor1.throttle = 0
    time.sleep(0.5)


# See: https://docs.arduino.cc/software/app-lab/tutorials/getting-started/#app-run
App.run(user_loop=loop)

Here is the Python log with the error message:

Resolved 17 packages in 594ms
Downloading adafruit-blinka (1.0MiB)
Downloaded adafruit-blinka
Prepared 17 packages in 986ms
Installed 17 packages in 30ms
+ adafruit-blinka==9.2.0
+ adafruit-circuitpython-busdevice==5.2.17
+ adafruit-circuitpython-connectionmanager==3.1.8
+ adafruit-circuitpython-motor==3.5.0
+ adafruit-circuitpython-motorkit==1.6.21
+ adafruit-circuitpython-pca9685==3.4.22
+ adafruit-circuitpython-register==1.13.0
+ adafruit-circuitpython-requests==4.1.17
+ adafruit-circuitpython-typing==1.12.3
+ adafruit-platformdetect==3.89.1
+ adafruit-pureio==1.1.11
+ binho-host-adapter==0.1.6
+ pyftdi==0.57.2
+ pyserial==3.5
+ pyusb==1.3.1
+ sysv-ipc==1.2.0
+ typing-extensions==4.16.0
Clearing cache at: .cache/uv
Removed 723 files (4.7MiB)
======== App is starting ============================
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/python/main.py", line 7, in <module>
from adafruit_motorkit import MotorKit
File "/app/.cache/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/adafruit_motorkit.py", line 36, in <module>
import board
File "/app/.cache/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/board.py", line 54, in <module>
raise NotImplementedError(
...<10 lines>...
)
NotImplementedError: 
adafruit-platformdetect version 3.89.1 was unable to identify the board
and/or microcontroller running the Linux platform.
Please be sure you have the latest packages by running:
'pip3 install --upgrade adafruit-blinka adafruit-platformdetect'
If you are running the latest package, your board may not yet be supported. Please
open a New Issue on GitHub at https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka/issues and
select New Board Request.

exited with code 1

Adding Blinka support for the Arduino Ventuno Q would be excellent, but any other workarounds are also welcome.