Seeed Studio Grove expansion board for XIAO

Seeed Studio XIAO Grove Shield - with integrated battery management chip

Seeed Studio XIAO Grove Shield is a plug-and-play Grove expansion board for Seeed Studio XIAO. It expands 8 Grove ports, including two Grove IIC and one UART, without jumper wires or soldering.

The shield enables the use of over 300 different Grove modules, including sensors, actuators, communication devices and displays, with Seeed Studio XIAO.

It features an integrated battery management chip and battery bonding pad for easy connection and charging of a 3.7V lithium battery, ideal for wearable projects.

The shield is compact and can be broken off as required (only 25 x 39 mm in size). It adopts all 14 pin assignments of Seeed Studio XIAO and offers an integrated power switch and a charging status indicator. There is also an SPI flash bond pad.

Special features:

• Integrated charging and management function for 3.7 V lithium batteries
• Grove connections (Grove IIC*2, Grove UART*1), all 14 GPIO led out
• Compact and detachable design
• integrated SPI flash bond pad
• Integrated power switch and charging status indicator
• Plug-and-play

Applications

• Portable devices
• Rapid prototyping
• Testing Grove modules
• Projects that require a small size

Specifications

• Power supply: 5V / 3.7V lithium battery
• Load capacity: 800mA
• Charging current: 400 mA (maximum)
• Operating temperature: -40°C to 85°C
• Storage temperature: -55°C to 150°C
• Grove interface: Grove * 8 (IIC*2 / UART*1)

Supported boards

What is Grove?

Grove facilitates connection, experimentation and simplifies the prototyping process. No jumpers or soldering are required. More than 300 Grove modules have been developed to cover a wide range of applications and fulfill a variety of requirements. Not only the hardware is open source, but also the software. 

Scope of delivery

• 1x Grove Shield for Seeed Studio XIAO
• 2 x pin header (7 pins each)