A new, upgraded style of soil sensor 🪴💧🌡️

For a while, we've had a SAMD09-based soil sensor (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4026) that uses the built-in capacitive sensing. It works well but has some non-linearity in its response to wet soil. We wanted to try a different system of measuring capacitance and update it to a 3~5V friendly ATtiny816 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/5681), which lets us ditch the regulator and shifting circuitry.

Adafruit STEMMA Soil Sensor - I2C Capacitive Moisture Sensor

Most low cost soil sensors are resistive style, where there's two prongs and the sensor measures the conductivity between the two. These work OK at first, but eventually start to oxidize ...

We'll also Stemma QT-ify it and add a NeoPixel and an AHT20 low-cost temperature/humidity sensor (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4566) for an 'all in one' gardening sensor. The un-rendered part in the center is a 3-pin DIP switch in 1.27mm pitch, for easily setting the I2C address. Coming soon.
Adafruit AHT20 - Temperature & Humidity Sensor Breakout Board

The AHT20 is a nice but inexpensive temperature and humidity sensor from the same folks that brought us the DHT22. You can take sensor readings as often as you like, and it uses standard I2C ...

@adafruit Does that mean you’ll be able to daisy-chain them? That’s something I’ve really wished for.
@rbender @adafruit Should do, that's how I2C/Stemma QT works.