Multi-Sensor Stick (BME280 + LTR559 + LSM6DS3)

by Pimoroni

A 3-in-1 super sensor suite for environmental, light and movement sensing, with Qw/ST for easy, solderless connectivity.

We heard you like sensors (we definitely like sensors!). So we combined three of our favourite ones into a convenient, small, stick-shaped format that's perfect for adding additional smarts to a bunch of different projects. The onboard I2C sensors can detect:

  • Temperature 🌞
  • Pressure ☔
  • Humidity 💧
  • Light 💡
  • Proximity ✋
  • Orientation 🙃
  • Motion (including steps, single and double taps and freefall 🍃)

It has a Qw/ST (also known as STEMMA QT and Qwiic) connector at each end to make it easy to connect it up to Qw/ST compatible microcontrollers, HATs and other boards via cable. Qw/ST cables are sold separately.

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Features

  • Bosch BME280 temperature, pressure, humidity sensor (datasheet)
    • Great for sensing conditions around your home 
    • I2C interface (address: 0x76)
  • Lite-On LTR-559ALS-01 sensor (datasheet)
    • I2C interface (address: 0x23)
    • IR/UV-filtering
    • 50.60Hz flicker rejection
    • 0.01 lux to 64,000 lux light detection range
    • ~5cm proximity detection range
  • STMicroelectronics LSM6DS3TR-C accelerometer and gyroscope (datasheet)
    • I2C interface (address: 0x6a)
    • ±2/±4/±8/±16 g full scale
    • ±125/±250/±500/±1000/±2000 dps full scale
    • Tap and double-tap detection
    • Free-fall detection
    • Pedometer / step detection
  • 2x Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector
  • 3.3V compatible
  • Compatible with Raspberry Pi computers
  • Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
  • Schematic

Software

If you're planning on using the Multi-Sensor Stick with Raspberry Pi Pico (or another RP2040/RP2350 microcontroller) there are drivers for BME280 and LTR559 baked into our custom MicroPython builds. We've spun up a new standalone MicroPython library for LSM6DS3 - search for lsm6ds3-micropython in Thonny's 'Manage Packages' to install it.

There's also full-fat Python libraries for if you're using a Raspberry Pi computer:

Notes

  • Dimensions: 52x7.9x4.2mm (LxWxH, including connectors). The mounting holes are M2.5.

2 customer reviews

6 months ago
This is a very useful little stick of sensors, it can be used for a varity of uses. I have made a quick menu and a simple mercury blob demo utilising the gyro sensor which on first tests is extremely sensitive. Here's the quick menu system, displaying all of the sensors on the Pico Display 2.8 https://github.com/mrglennjones/Multi-Sensor-PIco-Menu
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