I’m a relative novice in robot-making, and I’ve been having lots of fun with Micro:bit boards. We’ve got the Moto:bit running really nicely, and I’d love to add more functionality to it. I see that there’s a Qwiic interface on the Moto:bit board, but I can’t tell whether I could really access Qwiic sensors via the Micro:bit/Moto:bot, using the Makecode system. Seems like the libraries are for Arduino.
Is there a resource I’m missing for how to use Qwiic components with a Micro:bit?
Thanks!
Hi ntnsndr.
MicroBit is electrically compatible with Qwiic, the issue is that there are not MakeCode extensions written for most Qwiic sensors.
Since SparkFun primarily deals with Arduino, we write libraries for Arduino first for our products but it takes a while to develop libraries or packages for other platforms. We’re currently working on getting MicroPython support for Qwiic products and hopefully Micro:bit will follow but it may be a little while for that to happen.
Thanks—Is there a list of Qwiic sensors for which there are Micro:bit libraries?
Not that I am aware of. 