Fritzing Part : Fermion ENS160 Air Quality Sensor

Fermion ENS160 Air Quality Sensor.fzpz (33.9 KB)

A few problems with this part. I assume this is the DFRobot sen-0515 part (the url in the part points to the sensor not the board web page)?

Breadboard

the scale looks to be slightly off. The connectors should be on 0.1in boundaries (standard 0.1in header) but as we see they are slightly wider than a standard header. The top third pin from the left is the only one that looks aligned.

schematic

Is correctly aligned but the terminalIds (which are present) are not positioned correctly They should be on the top of the pin (or the bottom of the pin on the bottom) so the wire connects to the end of the pin instead of the middle. Your best bet here is to use Randy’s Inkscape Fritzing schematic extension which will automatically create correct schematics. In a recent post on the forum I fixed up a part for someone and used it there.

pcb

much the same problem. The pads are not aligned to 0.1in and thus won’t fit a standard header. In addition the hole size is way too large. The current holes are 0.051181in, for a standard 0.1in header they should be 0.038 in (i.e quite a bit smaller.) If you haven’t seen it this tutorial on part making may help you out.

(it gets posted a lot when people ask about making parts.) Hope this helps, if you have questions feel free to post them.

Peter

Thank you for the detailed feedback and tutorial link. I will make the necessary adjustments and update this part.

Yes, both DFRobot’s Gravity and Fermion ENS160 Air Quality Sensors are based on ScioSense’s new ENS160 sensor chip. I have written a post on Quora to explore what sets these two apart. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Read the full post here: Gravity ENS160 vs. Fermion ENS160: What sets these air quality sensors apart?

The gravity part uses 2mm grove connectors to fit the Gravity eco system and thus be plug and play (but won’t mount on a pcb easily) appears to be the main difference. They are aimed at different markets.

Peter