Adafruit APDS9960 Shield

Overview

The Adafruit APDS9960 Proximity, Light, RGB, and Gesture Sensor Shield features a Broadcom APDS9960 sensor and two STEMMA QT connectors.

Adafruit APDS9960 Shield (Credit: Adafruit)

Requirements

This shield can be used with boards which provide an I2C connector, for example STEMMA QT or Qwiic connectors. The target board must define a zephyr_i2c node label. See Shields for more details.

Pin Assignments

Shield Pin	Function
SDA	APDS9960 I2C SDA
SCL	APDS9960 I2C SCL
INT	APDS9960 interrupt out

In order to use interrupts you need to connect a separate wire from the shield to a GPIO pin on your microcontroller board. See avago,apds9960 for documentation on how to adjust the devicetree file.

Programming

Set --shield adafruit_apds9960 when you invoke west build. For example when running the APDS9960 RGB, ambient light, and gesture sensor proximity and light sample:

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b adafruit_qt_py_rp2040 --shield adafruit_apds9960 samples/sensor/apds9960