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Sensor for Feather Huzzah?

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Hello everyone, please forgive me as this is my first time working with embedded devices. I'm currently taking an IoT course and have an assignment to purchase a device, blink the led, and then get a reading from a sensor. For this assignment I purchased the Feather Huzzah, with the impression I would be able to accomplish both of these things. I was able to use Arduino to make the device blink, but I'm very confusing about getting a sensor reading. Does the Feather Huzzah have a sensor on it I could use? Or do I need to purchase one? After looking into it, seeing breadboards being used to connect to devices with the possibility of having to solder is making me very confused. Not to mention that the headers that came with it do not fit exactly into the top of the device, as there are less holes. Can someone let me know the easiest way I could get a reading from a sensor?

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Re: Sensor for Feather Huzzah?

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No, the Feather Huzzah 8266 doesn't have a sensor onboard.

The headers should fit. Note that there are fewer pins along one side. If you put female headers on the Feather https://www.adafruit.com/product/2886 you can easily add a Featherwing to the top. There are a few FeatherWings that have a accelerometer on them, but not other sensors. You can use this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4515 to allow the use of STEMMA-QT sensor breakouts that plugin, so no soldering other than the headers. For example, here's a nioce temperature & humidity sensor https://www.adafruit.com/product/3251. All you need then is a STEMMA-QT to STEMMA-QT cable such as https://www.adafruit.com/product/4210. Put the featherwing on the feather, and connect the sensor using the cable.

All the Adafruit sensor boards have libraries and tutorials https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-si7 ... ity-sensor to get you up & running.

Finally, if you don't use the STEMMA_QT boards you will have to solder, either wires or headers and use a breadboard.

Since you have an 8266 Feather you could use it's WiFi capability to send your readings to something like AdafruitIO. E.g. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-io- ... 66-arduino.

Dave

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