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Hardware Assembly 

To get started with your Qwiic shield, all you’ll need to do is solder on headers. For a detailed 
description of how to do this with Arduino shields, simply check out our Arduino shield tutorial. It’ll 
get you started with attaching those headers to your shield properly. These tips are also useful when 
installing the headers for the Qwiic shield for Photon. 

Once you’ve attached headers to your Qwiic shield, you’re ready to plug it into your Qwiic enabled 
board of choice. Below is an example of a few Qwiic sensors daisy chained to the Qwiic shield for 
Arduino. If you need to mount a Qwiic sensor, just grab a few standoffs and screws. Plug in any 
Qwiic enabled board and get going! 

 

 

 

Summary of Contents for Qwiic Shield

Page 1: ...ered to the PCB to The Qwiic Shields have 4x Qwiic connect ports all on the same I2 C bus Logic level converters are included for the Qwiic connect port s SDA and SCL lines so you do not have to worry...

Page 2: ...e are also buses for ground 5V and 3 3V on the shield for Arduino outlined below The headers also allow for every pin on the microcontroller of your choice to still be accessed through the female head...

Page 3: ...der has been soldered to the PCB to The Qwiic shield for the Particle Photon also includes 4x Qwiic connect ports a prototyping area and buses for 3 3V and ground However they are much smaller The Pho...

Page 4: ...those headers to your shield properly These tips are also useful when installing the headers for the Qwiic shield for Photon Once you ve attached headers to your Qwiic shield you re ready to plug it i...

Page 5: ...Qwiic HAT for Raspberry Pi The Qwiic HAT has 4 Qwiic connect ports all on the same I2 C bus In addition to this some of the pins on the Raspberry Pi are broken out for the user...

Page 6: ...Qwiic HAT simply plug it into the headers on the Raspberry Pi make sure that the USB arrow on the HAT is pointing towards the USB on the Raspberry Pi Once the HAT is plugged in you can start plugging...

Page 7: ...stalled run the gpio commands shown below COPY CODE gpio v gpio readall It should respond with some information about the wiringPi version and the Pi that its running on then draw a table illustrating...

Page 8: ...rogram will probe all the addresses on a bus and report whether any devices are present Call i2cdetect y 1 to probe the first I2 C bus which is what the Qwiic HAT is connected to COPY CODEpi raspberry...

Page 9: ...Arduino you ll need to grab a logic level converter to boost your signals up to 5V Also be aware that all Qwiic devices have pull up resistors on the I2 C lines So if your device does not have it you...

Page 10: ...abled board Using pliers snap off a row of 4 pins from the right angle male header Using diagonal cutters you will need to sacrifice one socket in order cut off a row of 4 pins from the female header...

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