{"id":304,"date":"2024-11-03T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/?p=304"},"modified":"2024-11-03T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T17:37:24","slug":"new-sensor-components-from-sparkfun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/2024\/11\/03\/new-sensor-components-from-sparkfun\/","title":{"rendered":"New sensor components from Sparkfun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got these and still testing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is a big step forward: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/products\/25200\">SparkFun Indoor Air Quality Combo Sensor &#8211; SCD41, SEN55 (Qwiic)<\/a> It combines all the sensors I want &#8212; CO<sub>2<\/sub>, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), temperature, and humidity &#8212; on a single board, one Qwiic socket, and no need for external power.\u00a0 This was an annoying part of the PM sensors I was using before, you have to make both a Qwiic connection and a +5V DC power supply for the fan.\u00a0 OTOH, this is big so I have to toss my earlier case design sketches and start over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/products\/16810\">SparkFun Qwiic Dual Solid State Relay<\/a> This is something I&#8217;ve wanted for awhile now, Qwiic control of AC power so I can turn a COTS HEPA filter on and off.\u00a0 I need to do some long-term testing with this, I&#8217;m not sure if I need a $60 relay I can control with Qwiic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got these and still testing&#8230; This is a big step forward: SparkFun Indoor Air Quality Combo Sensor &#8211; SCD41, SEN55 (Qwiic) It combines all the sensors I want &#8212; CO2, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), temperature, and humidity &#8212; on a single board, one Qwiic socket, and no need for external power.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}