BME690 Development Kit

Sensors Environmental
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BME690 will supercede BME688. Is there any possibility that a BME690 Development Kit is on the horizon? The Bosche BME690 offering (Shuttle Board and Application Board) is not a like-for-like replacement of the BME688 Development Kit and costs much more.

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I’d guess it’s 50/50, but we don’t have any insider info…we’ve been carrying that line for a long time and we currently carry 3 versions of their BME, if we were to add the 690 I’d presume we’d try to phase one out…

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Hi,

Thanks for your note. For the moment I will just wait and keep my fingers crossed.

BTW is it possible to commission a product from Sparkfun. I would obviously be incurring a much higher cost but it may be worthwhile to ger my hands on a BME690 Development Kit sooner rather than later.

Geoff

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Not currently (except for LARGE orders); but you can order some here Gas sensor BME690 | Bosch Sensortec and then using the datasheet you could order some pre-fab PCBs from some place like jlcpcb and re-flow the sensors onto a board you’ve designed (it looks like i2c and SPI are available as communication protocols)

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Hi,

I have just spoken with jtcpcb and they suggested: kindly ask Sparkfun for the gerber file, Bill of materials and the CPL file for the components in the board. This was in response to my enquiry about creating a BME690 version of the BME688 Development Kit.

Can you release these files to me, or pass them onto jctpcb on my behalf.

Geoff

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It doesn’t look like sparkfun has those files. It would take an engineer somewhat considerable time to make a design then create the files needed to manufacture a board.

Unfortunately you would need to do the design first then send the files to jlpcb. Only then could the make the actual board for you.

Maybe Bosch could provide you a copy of their files for the older dev kit and you could modify them for the BME690?

I can’t speak for sparkfun but doubt they have the time and manpower to do a one off board for you. If you’re not able to design it on your own you might find an EE freelancer that can do it for you.

I don’t see there being enough demand for something like this for SFE to put the money and effort required to make it.

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Hi,

I am grateful for your comments and will follow up on your suggestion to contact Bosche Sensortec.

Geoff

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