Adafruit_Blinka: Board not supported exception

Hi, I’m just trying to test the DC-Stepper Motor HAT following the online instructions located here: https://learn.adafruit.com/simple-raspberry-pi-robot/hardware

It’s a Raspberry Pi 3 with Jessie that I’ve apt-get updated/upgraded.

I’m running a Python3 virtual env and adafruit-blinka and adafruit-circuitpython-motorkit pip3 installs worked without error.

(car1) pi@picar:~/car1 $ uname -m
armv7l
(car1) pi@picar:~/car1 $ pip list
Package                          Version
-------------------------------- -------
Adafruit-Blinka                  1.0.2
adafruit-circuitpython-busdevice 2.2.7
adafruit-circuitpython-motor     1.3.3
adafruit-circuitpython-motorkit  1.2.3
adafruit-circuitpython-pca9685   3.2.3
adafruit-circuitpython-register  1.3.2
Adafruit-PlatformDetect          0.0.7
pip                              18.1
rpi-ws281x                       4.1.0
RPi.GPIO                         0.6.5
setuptools                       40.6.3
spidev                           3.2
wheel                            0.32.3

However, I cannot run any of the examples to test the motors and am not experienced enough to understand how to debug.

(car1) pi@picar:~/car1 $ python3
Python 3.4.2 (default, Sep 26 2018, 07:16:01)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from adafruit_motorkit import MotorKit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/pi/car1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/adafruit_motorkit.py", line 59, in <module>
    import board
  File "/home/pi/car1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/board.py", line 59, in <module>
    raise NotImplementedError("Board not supported")
NotImplementedError: Board not supported

I’ve also run the tests for i2c and spi

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-4-gpio-setup/configuring-i2c

(car1) pi@picar:~/car1 $ sudo i2cdetect -y 1
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: 60 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: 70 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
(car1) pi@picar:~/car1 $ ls -l /dev/spidev*
crw-rw---- 1 root spi 153, 0 Dec 24 14:42 /dev/spidev0.0
crw-rw---- 1 root spi 153, 1 Dec 24 14:42 /dev/spidev0.1

Any suggestions on how I could troubleshoot further? Appreciate your time.