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smôl Header

smôl Header

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Our RedBoards are great. But don't they sometimes seem a little BIG?!

Enter smôl, a new range of boards which are both small in size and small on current draw. It's a smôl world!

smôl boards are designed to stack one on top of the other, using 16-way 0.5mm-pitch Flexible Printed Circuits (FPCs). We really like FPCs and we're using them on more and more of our products. But they can be a bit tricky when it comes to prototyping or if you want to connect other devices to your smôl stack. The smôl Header is here to help!

The smôl Header breaks out all 16 smôl connections in good old 0.1" format. The hole pattern is the same as an old school 16-pin 0.3" Dual-In line Package (DIP). Perfect for soldering header pins to and then pushing into standard breadboard.

You've got full access to all the smôl pins, so connecting your favorite SPI board to smôl is as easy as plug-and-play! We've included a Qwiic connector too, so you can attach your favorite Qwiic boards to your smôl stack qwiicly and easily.

smôl is an ecosystem of miniature processor boards, peripheral boards, power boards and accessories. Designed to be both physically small and to have the smallest possible current draw, smôl is the perfect choice for applications like wildlife tracking or discrete long-term monitoring. smôl boards are designed to stack one on top of the other, using 16-way 0.5mm-pitch Flexible Printed Circuits (FPCs) to provide the interconnect from one board to the next. Looking for a really compact solution for your next project? This is it!

We will be adding new smôl boards over the coming months. Don't see the board you need for your application? Reach out to us via the SparkX Forum and tell us which board(s) we should add next!

Get started with the smôl Hookup Guide

Dig into the specifics with the smôl Header Hookup Guide
Experimental Product: SparkX products are rapidly produced to bring you the most cutting edge technology as it becomes available. These products are tested but come with no guarantees. Live technical support is not available for SparkX products. Head on over to our forum for support or to ask a question.

Features:

  • Converts the smôl 16-way FPC to 16-pin 0.3" Dual-In line Package (DIP) format
  • Qwiic connector
  • Configurable I2C pull-up resistors

Properties:

  • Length: 1.60" (40.6mm)
  • Width: 0.42" (10.7mm)
  • Height: 0.18" (4.7mm) max.
  • Weight: 1.6g (0.06oz)
  • PCB thickness: 1.6mm

Documents:

smôl Header Documentation:

smôl Documentation:

The smôl Header appears in the following collections:

SKU SF-SPX-18620
by Little Bird