As announced recently, I’ve now added a full kit for the Room Board in the shop, containing:

• The room board PCB.
• SHT11 temperature + humidity sensor.
• An LDR light sensor.
• The ELV PIR motion sensor.
• Two 6-pin male headers.

Here is the kit (oops, forgot the two 6-pin headers):

From top left to bottom right: PIR lens, PIR sensor, 3-pin header, SHT11, LDR, Room Board PCB, pre-assembled PIR sensor board.

The hardest part to solder is the SHT11 sensor. It has 10 gold pads on the side, of which only 8 are connected. Make sure you place the sensor in the right orientation. With the text on the pcb readable, the round part is pointing down:

Next, solder in the LDR light sensor. Be sure to place it in the LDR1 position:

The wires of the LDR may be a bit more difficult to solder than ordinary components, so be sure to use enough flux:

Next, we need to prepare the ELV PIR sensor board – the board itse;f already has all the SMD’s soldered on, just the PIR sensor itself.

Careful – do NOT touch the surface of the PIR sensor, as any traces of oil will reduce its sensitivity:

The sensor has to be pushed through the bottom side of the lens holder, into the board – from the non-component side:

Solder the three wires and snip them off. Don’t use too much solder or you’ll risk shorting out the pads with the nearby components:

Then turn the board around and click the fresnel lens onto the base (it has three different-sized notches):

Next, we need to connect the boards together:

The pins go through the room board and should be snipped off once soldered:

Almost there – the last step is to solder the two 6-pin male headers onto the room board. To hold them in the right position, I just push them into a JeeNode:

… then place the room board on top and solder both headers, all 12 pins. Leave the 8 holes on the side of the PCB free (these are for another type of PIR sensor):

That’s it – you’re done!

For more info on uploading the “rooms.pde” sketch firmware to the JeeNode, go back to the docs page.

Update – for the Room Board v2, see this weblog post.