Can You Access Non I2C Pins With Qwiic pHAT v2.0 On?

Qwiic System
1

I’m thinking about getting a Qwiic pHAT v2.0.

Is there a way to access other pins like uart, gpio, and so on with the hat on, or can you only plug in Qwiic once you have the hat on?

2

There are ways to access them but they require fitting a probe or wire between the Pi and the pHAT or soldering/desoldering. Nothing straight forward at the moment.

3

Thanks for the confirmation. Is there a Qwiic board that plugs onto the top of Pi headers and reveals the pins that Qwiic system doesn’t use?

If not, it would awesome if Sparkfun could develop such thing.

4

Unfortunately, we don’t have something like that yet. Thank you for the feedback, I’ll let our internal teams know.

5

I’m a bit surprised Brandon didn’t mention the [Qwiic SHIM. I think (but have not tried) that you can put it onto the RPi pins first then plug another HAT onto the RPi.

I also noticed the [Qwiic HAT which might be helpful for you.](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14459)](SparkFun Qwiic SHIM for Raspberry Pi - DEV-15794 - SparkFun Electronics)