CCS811 Air Quality Breakout Hookup Guide

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Hardware Assembly

Attach Headers

To prepare the sensor for the examples, attach seven pins from a Break Away Header to the through holes. Even though we only need the four I2C pins, we'll populate all of them for this guide in case we want to try them out.

With Male headers plugged into a bread board, settle the CCS811 pins onto those headers

Place the strip of seven pins in a breadboard.

View of the board settled onto the pins  - one pin is soldered to check that the board is square

Solder a single pin and then check that the board is square to the pins.

This shows the soldering of the remaining pins

Solder the remaining pins.

Attach NTC thermistor (Optional)

If you would like to use a thermistor to compensate for temperature, solder in a 10K Thermistor (Vishay part number NTCLE100E3103JB0).

Soldering the thermister to the NTC pins

Attaching an NTC thermistor

Example Assemblies

You're ready to start communicating with the CCS811! Here's an example with the NTC Thermistor populated, and one using right-angle headers instead.

This shows both right angle pins soldered to the board as well as straight headers with a thermistor attached