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SparkFun qwiic pHat
Les Pounder wants another slice of Raspberry Pi and he needs it real ‘qwiic’! Complaints about bad gags to the usual address…
IN BRIEF
A low-cost and simple option for those wishing to connect I2C electronics to their Raspberry Pi. Compatible with qwiic and Stemma QT components, which are slightly more expensive than their more common counterparts. The ‘qwiic’ aspects of the board are the four qwiic connections that enable compatible components to be attached via a single four-pin connector. Connections can be chained together to build more complex projects.
Electronics with the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO are amazing, but at first it can seem exceptionally daunting. The many wires and connections can scare many away, but once you get the hang of it the workflow becomes second nature. There are ways to simplify the wiring and one of those is the I2C protocol which uses only four wires to form a bus, with devices connected at addresses.