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Grove Shield FeatherWing for Particle Mesh and all Feathers
The Grove Shield FeatherWing for Particle Mesh and all Feathers is an add-under for any Particle Mesh or Feather board, so that you can easily interface with...
The Grove Shield FeatherWing for Particle Mesh and all Feathers is an add-under for any Particle Mesh or Feather board, so that you can easily interface with Seeed's huge collection of Grove sensors. Now you can have full range of hundreds of Grove modules with Particle Mesh along with our Feather line!
Working with Grove requires no soldering. Just plug the sensors, actuators, or displays into this shield via a Grove cable (not included), so you can focus on coding and making!
You get 8 Grove connectors on this shield, including:
- 3 Grove analog connectors, 2 analog pins each, 6 analog pins in total
- 2 Grove digital connectors, 2 digital pins each, 4 digital pins in total;
- 2 Grove I2C connectors (these will also fit our 4-pin STEMMA connectors)
- 1 Grove UART connector
Please note that this board was designed for Particle Mesh, so the pin numbers next to each Grove connector match the pin numbering used on Particle. If you're using Particle boards, you're good to go! If you're using other Feather boards, and only using the UART (RX/TX), I2C (SDA/SCL) or analog pins (A0-A5), the numbering will match up just fine since that's the same on pretty much all Feather boards (some, like the ESP8266, don't have A1-A5 pins). But, for the digital connectors, you'll need to look and match the pin numbers from the Feather you've got to a Particle Mesh board since many Feathers have different digital pin numbering. Or use a multimeter to verify connectivity. It's not a big deal as long as you know to watch out for it, and it only affects the 2 digital connectors.
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Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- FeatherWing
- A FeatherWing is an add-on board made to plug into the Feather microcontroller board layout. Knowing a product is a FeatherWing helps you check whether it will physically and electrically fit your Feather-style mainboard.
- Grove
- Grove is a plug-in connector ecosystem for sensors and modules that avoids soldering and jumper wires. Grove compatibility matters because it can make it quicker to add supported I2C devices, as long as the cable and voltage are suitable.
- I2C
- I2C is a two-wire communication bus used by many sensors and small modules. It matters because several I2C devices can share the same two wires, but each device needs a compatible address and your controller must support I2C.
- SDA/SCL
- SDA and SCL are the two signal lines used by an I2C bus: data and clock. Seeing these names helps you identify the correct connections when wiring I2C devices, even though Qwiic cables usually hide that wiring for you.
- Shield
- An add-on board that plugs into a main controller board to give it extra features such as sensing, motor control or communication. Knowing a product supports shields helps you judge whether it can connect neatly into an existing maker-board setup.
- STEMMA
- A plug-and-cable connection system used on some maker electronics boards to make wiring simpler. If a product uses STEMMA, you need the matching cable or connector type to plug it in without soldering.
- UART
- UART is a simple serial connection that sends data over separate transmit and receive wires, often labelled TX and RX. It matters because this module is designed to replace a wired UART cable with a wireless link while keeping the same serial data format.
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