SparkFun Qwiic Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi

The SparkFun Qwiic Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi is a comprehensive package for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts. It includes the SparkFun Qwiic pHAT v2.0 for Raspberry Pi, which adds four Qwiic connectors to your Pi. The kit also features four Qwiic-enabled boards: SparkFun VCNL4040 Proximity Sensor Breakout, SparkFun Micro OLED Breakout, SparkFun BME280 Atmospheric Sensor Breakout, and SparkFun SGP40 Air Quality Sensor. The kit is also packed with plenty of Qwiic Cables to connect all components together.

The SparkFun Qwiic Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi provides an opportunity to use Python to take sensor readings from each Qwiic-enabled board. You can measure proximity, ambient light, barometric pressure, humidity, temperature, and VOC Index. The readings can be displayed through the Micro OLED display or a monitor using the serial terminal. The kit can be used to create an Internet of Things (IoT) project by displaying the sensor data on a custom dashboard using Cayenne.

The Qwiic system simplifies I²C on your Raspberry Pi. All that is required is a Raspberry Pi with a 2x20 GPIO header to plug the HAT into. The kit is compatible with the NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit and Google Coral Development Board, as they use the same 2x20 GPIO header.

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.

The SparkFun Qwiic Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi includes:

• 1x SparkFun Qwiic pHAT v2.0 for Raspberry Pi
• 1x SparkFun Micro OLED Breakout (Qwiic)
• 1x SparkFun Proximity Sensor Breakout - 20cm, VCNL4040 (Qwiic)
• 1x SparkFun Atmospheric Sensor Breakout - BME280 (Qwiic)
• 1x SparkFun Air Quality Sensor - SGP40 (Qwiic)
• 2x Flexible Qwiic Cable - 50mm
• 2x Flexible Qwiic Cable - 100mm

With this revision of the SparkFun Qwiic Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi V2, the SparkFun Environmental Combo Breakout - CCS811/BME280 (Qwiic) has been replaced with the SparkFun Air Quality Sensor - SGP40 (Qwiic). The BME280 is still included as a separate breakout board. Note that the SGP40 measures the VOC index as opposed to the CCS811 which measured the tVOC and eCO₂.