Seeed Studio Grove Base for XIAO
Introducing the Seeed Studio Grove Base for XIAO, the perfect tool for any hobbyist looking to expand the possibilities of their projects. This base features a compact and breakable design, allowing you to quickly build out your setup without taking up a lot of space.
This is a plug-and-play Grove extension board for Seeed Studio XIAO. This Shield helps you get rid of jumper wires and soldering work by pulling out the pins of the Seeed Studio XIAO and expands to 8 Grove connectors, including two Grove IIC and one UART. It acts as a bridge for Seeed Studio XIAO and Seeed's Grove system, which provides 300+ different Grove modules including sensors, actuators, communication, display, etc. No more jumper wires and soldering work, you could enjoy creating more projects with Seeed Studio XIAO easily and quickly.
With the on-board battery management chip and battery bonding pad, you could easily power your Seeed Studio XIAO with a lithium 3.7V battery and recharge it, making your projects, especially wearables ones, more flexible and in portable. You could even break the board through the onboard PCB stamp holds according to your actual needs of the project (only 25*39mm in dimension after break-off), making it much smaller.
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As an extension board, the Grove Shield for Seeed Studio XIAO also pulls all 14 pinouts from Seeed Studio XIAO, and its onboard power switch and charging status indicator light make it more user-friendly. The Shield even reserves the SPI-Flash bonding pad for an advanced developer who may need to add Flash to Seeed Studio XIAO to expand its memory space, providing Seeed Studio XIAO with more possibilities.
If you are a fan of Seeed Studio XIAO already, you would not miss this Grove Shield, but if you are hesitating to have one because you do not want to do soldering work, it is the chance to start the wonderful experience with Seeed Studio XIAO now!
Please note:
A pair of non-soldered 7-pin headers are accompanied by the product of Seeed Studio XIAO. You could solder them before connecting Seeed Studio XIAO with this Shield by plugging the soldered pin headers into the female headers on the Shield.
Hardware Overview
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Features:
- On-board Lithium Battery Charging and Management Function
- Grove connectors (Grove IIC*2, Grove UART*1), all 14 GPIO led out
- Compact and Breakable Design
- SPI-Flash Bonding Pad Reserved
- On-board Power Switch and Charging Status Indicator Light
Application:
- Wearable devices
- Rapid prototyping
- Grove modules testing
- Projects require small size
Pin layout:
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Technical specifications:
- Power Supply 5V / 3.7V Lithium Battery
- Load Capacity 800mA
- Charging current 400mA (Max)
- Operating Temperature - 40°C to 85°C
- Storage Temperature -55°C to 150°C
- Grove Interface Grove * 8 (I2C*2 / UART*1)
