Qwiic SHIM for Raspberry Pi Hookup Guide
Introduction
The SparkFun Qwiic SHIM for Raspberry Pi is a small, easily removable breakout to add a Qwiic connector to your Raspberry Pi. The SHIM (short for Shove Hardware in the Middle) design allows you to plug directly to the Pi's I2C bus with no soldering required and the thin PCB design allows for it to be sandwiched on your Pi GPIO with other HATS. The Qwiic SHIM works great when you do not need the full capabilities of the Qwiic pHAT for Raspberry Pi or if you want to add a Qwiic connector to your Pi but do not have room for yet another HAT.
Required Materials
To follow along with this tutorial, you will need the following materials. You may not need everything though depending on what you have. Add it to your cart, read through the guide, and adjust the cart as necessary.
Single Board Computer
You will need Raspberry Pi with 2x20 male headers installed.
A Pi Zero W will also work but you will need to make sure to solder some male headers to it.
Or you could connect it to any single board computer (like the NVIDIA Jetson Nano) that utilizes the 40-pin Raspberry Pi GPIO header footprint.
NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit
DEV-15297Google Coral Development Board
DEV-15318Qwiic Board
Now you probably wouldn't buy the Qwiic SHIM if you didn't have any Qwiic products to use with it, right? If you don't have any Qwiic products, the following might not be a bad place to start.
SparkFun Micro OLED Breakout (Qwiic)
LCD-14532Finally, you'll need our handy Qwiic cables to easily connect sensors to your Qwiic SHIM. Below are a few options.
Qwiic Cable - 200mm
PRT-14428Qwiic Cable - 500mm
PRT-14429Required Setup Tools
If you are using your Pi (or other single-board computer) as a desktop, these peripherals are required:
- USB Mouse
- USB Keyboard
- HDMI monitor/TV
- 5V Power Supply
Suggested Reading
If you aren't familiar with the Qwiic system, we recommend reading here for an overview of everything Qwiic:
Qwiic Connect System |
We would also recommend taking a look at the following tutorials if you aren't familiar with the content covered in them.