Hey all,
I’m new to the whole Qwiic infrastructure and currently looking for a simple option to get four GPIO pins hooked up to a female Qwiic socket. I only found the Sparkfun Shim and HAT to do this, however they don’t really suit my needs. The HAT is way too big, blocking all other GPIO pins. I only need one I2C bus, so six pins should be blocked at max . The Shim has the right size but it isn’t secure enough for my use case.
I already thought about soldering stackable female pins to the shim but the PCB holes in the back side of the shim aren’t made for soldering to, so that’s not an elegant option.
Is there another product that is suitable for my case? I’ve been looking for ages and wasn’t able to find anything.
Thanks in advance!
Hi TS-Russell, thanks for your answer.
I might have expressed that a bit too infinitely. What I mean is not a jumper cable from GPIO to male Qwiic, but A jumper cable or HAT from GPIO to female Qwiic. Basically just like the Raspberry Shim but fixed instead of relying on friction like the Shim does.
Since there is no cable to do that, I’ll probably either go with a Qwiic Adapter and solder a few female GPIO jumpers to the breakout or I’ll use a 2x3 female header and solder it to the bottom of the Shim to have a kind of self-built small HAT. That is of course if there’s no better product for doing this already.
I hope that was more clear!
By the way, are there extensions for the QwiiC cable? Say that I wanted to have a 1m long cable, is there some adapter to connect two 500mm cables to extend them to 1m in total?
Sounds like a solid plan!
You also might be able to solder the shim in place if that is an option