Qwiic Control at Your Fingertips
Switch it up, and remove those batteries with ease! Check out our new products this week.
Hello again everyone and welcome back to another Friday Product Post here at SparkFun Electronics! This week, we have two brand new products to close out January! We are pleased to announce the brand new SparkFun Qwiic Navigation Switch, a new way to control your Qwiic devices including sensors, displays, robots and more. After that, we have a tool that all of our engineering professors insisted that we use, a custom JST Battery Removal Tool! Let's jump in and take a closer look at both of these new products!
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The SparkFun Qwiic Navigation Switch adds a small, joystick-like 5-way tactile switch to your I2C bus! When connected to a microcontroller, push the 5-way tactile switch toward a direction (up, down, left, right, or center) to provide additional input for your application. The built-in RGB status LED provides visual feedback indicating when a switch is pushed.
Populated on the board is a 5-way tactile switch. Each direction includes a momentary switch that is read by the PCA9554 8-bit I2C I/O expander and notifies the microcontroller when a switch is pushed. The microcontroller will then provide visual feedback by writing to the non-addressable RGB LED. Each channel of the RGB LED can be disconnected from the PCA9554's GPIO and connected to a different input. An interrupt pin is also broken out to notify your microcontroller when a state has changed quickly. We've also included an LED for power. Utilizing our handy Qwiic system, no soldering is required to connect it to the rest of your system. However, we still have broken out 0.1in.-spaced pins if you prefer a breadboard.
The SparkFun JST Battery Removal Tool is a tool to remove a standard 2-pin JST-PH connector (2mm pitch) from its housing! Easily remove a LiPo battery's 2-pin JST-PH female connector using the JST battery removal tool! Save your fingertips from grabbing the connector when wiggling the connector out. Avoid accidentally pinching the wires when using needle nose pliers. Or save your wires from being cut when using a diagonal cutter. Simply slide the tool over the LiPo battery's JST female connector with one hand. With your other hand holding the male connector, pull the JST female connector away to disconnect the battery!
That's it for this week. As always, we can't wait to see what you make! Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or let us know on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn. Please be safe out there, be kind to one another! Happy hacking!
