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El Duderino Introduction
The SparkFun Qwiic Shield for Thing Plus provides an easy-to-assemble way to add the SparkFun Qwiic ecosystem to any development board with the Thing Plus Footprint. This shield is also compatible with the Feather Footprint so you can add Qwiic functionality to any development board that uses the Thing Plus or Feather Footprints! It connects the I2C bus (GND, 3.3V, SDA, and SCL) on your Thing Plus to four SparkFun Qwiic connectors. The Qwiic ecosystem allows for easy daisy chaining so, as long as your devices are on different addresses, you can connect as many Qwiic devices as you'd like.
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DEV-16790
The SparkFun Qwiic Shield for Thing Plus makes it so you can use SparkFun's Qwiic connect ecosystem with development boards t…
Required Materials
To follow along with this tutorial, you will need an Arduino development board with the Thing Plus footprint. This includes the all variants of the SparkFun Thing Plus boards and many other Thing Plus-compatible boards! Here are a few of the compatible boards:
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WRL-15663
The SparkFun ESP32 Thing Plus is the next step to get started with Espressif IoT ideations while still enjoying all the ameni…
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WRL-15574
The SparkFun Artemis Thing Plus takes our popular Feather footprint and adds in the powerful Artemis module for ultimate func…
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DEV-14713
With a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F MCU, the SparkFun SAMD51 Thing Plus is one of our most powerful microcontroller boards yet!
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The Qwiic Shield includes a set of stackable headers to fit the Thing Plus footprint but you may also need some headers to solder to your Thing Plus. Or if you would prefer to use another header type for your shield assembly we've listed a few options below:
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PRT-00115
Single row of 40-holes, female header. Can be cut to size with a pair of wire-cutters. Standard .1" spacing. We use them exte…
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PRT-00116
A row of headers - break to fit. 40 pins that can be cut to any size. Used with custom PCBs or general custom headers.
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PRT-10158
These are a longer version of our [standard](http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=116) break away he…
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PRT-15187
These stackable headers are made to work with the [SparkFun ESP32 Thing Plus](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14689) to con…
Now you probably would not want the Qwiic Shield for Thing Plus if you didn't have any Qwiic products to use with it, right? Well, if you don't have any Qwiic products, the following might not be a bad place to start:
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GPS-15712
The SparkFun NEO-M9N GPS Breakout is a high quality GPS board with equally impressive configuration options.
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SEN-15805
The SparkFun Qwiic TMP117 Breakout is a high precision temperature sensor equipped with an I2C interface.
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ROB-15451
The SparkFun Qwiic Motor Driver takes all the features of the Serial Controlled Motor Driver and miniaturizes them, adding Qw…
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SEN-15177
The SparkFun Proximity Sensor Breakout is a simple IR presence and ambient light sensor utilizing the VCNL4040.
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You will need some of our Qwiic cables to connect your devices to the shield. Below are a few options:
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PRT-14427
This is a 100mm long 4-conductor cable with 1mm JST termination. It’s designed to connect Qwiic enabled components together…
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PRT-14426
This is a 50mm long 4-conductor cable with 1mm JST termination. It’s designed to connect Qwiic enabled components together …
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PRT-14428
This is a 200mm long 4-conductor cable with 1mm JST termination. It’s designed to connect Qwiic enabled components together…
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PRT-14429
This is a 500mm long 4-conductor cable with 1mm JST termination. It’s designed to connect Qwiic enabled components together…
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Lastly, if you want to use a non-Qwiic I2C device, these adapters help to convert it to a Qwiic connector:
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DEV-14495
The SparkFun Qwiic Adapter provides the perfect means to make any old I2C board into a Qwiic enabled board.
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PRT-14425
This is a jumper adapter cable that comes pre-terminated with a female Qwiic JST connector on one end and a breadboard hookup…
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CAB-14988
This is a jumper adapter cable that comes pre-terminated with a female Qwiic JST connector on one end and female connectors o…
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Required Tools
You will need a soldering iron, solder, and general soldering accessories to solder the header pins to the Qwiic shields:
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TOL-09163
This is your basic tube of unleaded (Pb-free) solder with a no clean, water soluble resin core. 0.031" gauge and 15 grams
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TOL-09507
This is a very simple fixed temp, quick heating, 30W 110/120 VAC soldering iron. We really enjoy using the more expensive iro…
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Suggested Reading
If you aren't familiar with the Qwiic system, we recommend reading here for an overview:
We would also recommend taking a look at the following tutorials if you aren't familiar with them:
I2C
An introduction to I2C, one of the main embedded communications protocols in use today.
