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SparkFun Qwiic Shield for Arduino Nano
The SparkFun Qwiic Shield for Arduino Nano provides you with a quick and easy way to enter into SparkFun's Qwiic ecosystem with your Arduino Nano board. The ...
The SparkFun Qwiic Shield for Arduino Nano provides you with a quick and easy way to enter into SparkFun's Qwiic ecosystem with your Arduino Nano board. The Qwiic shield connects the I2C bus (GND, 3.3V, SDA and SCL) on your Arduino Nano to four SparkFun Qwiic connectors (two horizontally and two vertically mounted). The Qwiic connect system allows for easy daisy chaining so long as your devices are on different addresses, you can connect as many Qwiic devices as you would like.
The Qwiic Shield for Arduino Nano comes with two, 15-pin female stackable headers. You will need to solder the headers on to the shield and, if necessary, to your Arduino Nano yourself. Take care to match the markings on the Qwiic Shield to the appropriate pins on your Nano to avoid possibly damaging your boards.
The SparkFun Qwiic Connect System is an ecosystem of I2C sensors, actuators, shields and cables that make prototyping faster and less prone to error. All Qwiic-enabled boards use a common 1mm pitch, 4-pin JST connector. This reduces the amount of required PCB space, and polarized connections mean you can’t hook it up wrong.
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Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- Headers
- Rows of metal pins used to plug a module into a breadboard or connect it with jumper wires. Pre-soldered headers make the module easier to use straight away without needing to solder the pins yourself.
- 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.
- PCB
- A printed circuit board is a rigid board with copper tracks that connect electronic parts without loose wires. For this kit, the PCBs also form the airplane shape, so they are both the circuit base and part of the finished model.
- Qwiic
- Qwiic is a plug-in connector system for I2C devices that uses small 4-pin cables, so you can connect compatible sensors without soldering. It matters because your controller or adapter also needs Qwiic, or you will need a cable or breakout to wire it up.
- 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.
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Qwiic Shield for Arduino Nano Schematic
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Arduino Nano Stackable Header Kit Datasheet
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