Temp and Humidity Trinkey
by Adafruit
It’s half USB Key, half temperature-humidity sensor… it’s the Adafruit SHT41 and SHT45 Trinkey boards. We wanted to make it super-easy to add one of our most popular combination environmental sensors to any computer with a USB A port.
The PCB is designed to slip into any USB A port on a computer or laptop. There’s an ATSAMD21 microcontroller on board with just enough circuitry to keep it happy. One pin of the microcontroller connects to a NeoPixel LED. Another pin is used as a capacitive touch input on the end. A reset button lets you enter bootloader mode if necessary. That’s it!
The SAMD21 can run CircuitPython or Arduino nicely - both have existing SHT4x, NeoPixel, and our FreeTouch (capacitive touch) libraries. Over the USB connection, you can have serial, MIDI, or HID connectivity.
The SHT41 sensor is the fourth generation of I2C temperature and humidity sensor from Sensirion. (They started at the SHT10 and reached the top!). The SHT41 has an excellent ±1.8% typical relative humidity accuracy from 25 to 75% and ±0.2 °C typical accuracy from 0 to 75 °C. The reported temperature may be a few degrees higher than ambient due to self-heating.
The SHT45 sensor is the fourth generation (started at the SHT10 and worked its way up to the top!). The SHT45 has an excellent ±1.0% typical relative humidity accuracy from 25 to 75% and ±0.1°C typical accuracy from 0 to 75 °C. The reported temperature may be a few degrees higher than ambient due to self-heating.
The SHT41 or SHT45 Trinkey is perfect for simple projects that want to read the ambient temperature and humidity without extra wiring, soldering, drivers, or complex software. We even ship the board pre-programmed with code that will print a unique serial number, the temperature, humidity, and touch sensor over a serial/COM port in CSV (comma-separated value) format so you can use it immediately. If you need to measure farther than the computer port, simply use any USB A extension cable.
If you don’t need high precision, save a few $ with the SHT41 Trinkey, which has ±1.8% typical relative humidity accuracy from 25 to 75% and ±0.2°C typical accuracy from 0 to 75 °C.
We think it’s just an adorable little board. It’s small, durable, and inexpensive enough to be a first microcontroller board or an inspiration for advanced developers to make something simple and fun.
- ATSAMD21E18 32-bit Cortex M0+ - 48 MHz 32-bit processor with 256KB Flash and 32 KB RAM
- Native USB supported by every OS - can be used in Arduino or CircuitPython as a USB serial console, MIDI, Keyboard/Mouse HID, and even a little disk drive for storing Python scripts.
- Can be used with Arduino IDE or CircuitPython
- One RGB NeoPixel LED
- One Capacitive Touchpad
- SHT41 or SHT45 Temperature + Humidity sensor with thermal-isolation cutout
- Reset switch to start your project code over or enter bootloader mode
- Slim and cute, keychain-friendly!
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CircuitPython 9.2.1
This is the latest stable release of CircuitPython that will work with the Temp and Humidity Trinkey.
Use this release if you are new to CircuitPython.
Built-in modules available: adafruit_bus_device, adafruit_pixelbuf, array, board, builtins, busio, collections, digitalio, math, microcontroller, neopixel_write, nvm, os, rainbowio, random, storage, struct, supervisor, sys, time, touchio, usb_cdc, usb_hid, usb_midi
Included frozen(?) modules: adafruit_sht4x, neopixel
Absolute Newest
Every time we commit new code to CircuitPython we automatically build binaries for each board and language. The binaries are stored on Amazon S3, organized by board, and then by language. These releases are even newer than the development release listed above. Try them if you want the absolute latest and are feeling daring or want to see if a problem has been fixed.
Previous Versions of CircuitPython
All previous releases of CircuitPython are available for download from Amazon S3 through the button below. For very old releases, look in the OLD/ folder for each board. Release notes for each release are available at GitHub button below.
Older releases are useful for testing if you something appears to be broken in a newer release but used to work, or if you have older code that depends on features only available in an older release. Otherwise we recommend using the latest stable release.