Qwiic Pihat

Qwiic System
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I would like an authoritative answer from Sparkfun if possible. It’s a simple question because I am new at this.

I have a SparkFun Qwiic PiHat. I already had a board (A Waveshare General Driver for Robots) plugged into the pi. The pi has 40 male pins, and the Wavesahre board has 40 female pin sockets. Interestingly the Waveshare board has a parallel set of 40 female sockets to allow me to attach additional 40 pin boards.

What is the correct way to put these together? The i2c PiHat seems to want to be at the end of the chain because it has no passthrough. So I guess I would plug the Waveshare board into the Pi as I had it, and then find an adapter hat which would have male pins (into the waveshare boards parallel female connector) on one side and male pins on the other side (into the PiHat).

Is that the right, conventional way to go, and if so, specifically what part should I order?

Or should I have ordered a different i2c PiHat?

Thanks

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I can’t find a photo of the Waveshare board installed/in-use, but I assume it faces inward when mounted on a Pi, with the parallel 40-pin header sticking out slightly from them both, facing downward? If so, you may be able to simply plug the qwiic phat into that parallel port upside-down and use it that way, or grab an extension cable :slight_smile:

There are also things like Raspberry Pi GPIO Ribbon Cable - 40-pin, 6" (RPi 3, RPi2, B+) available if that might suit your case better