SHT40 Kit — Box Cover Design
This page holds the printable box cover for the SHT40 Temperature and Humidity Kit. The design uses a white background and high-contrast type, so it does not drink your printer ink.
Print it, cut it out, and glue it to the front of the box you keep the kit in. A bin of unlabelled boxes all look the same. A bin with covers on them lets a student find the kit they want from across the room.
Printable Cover Template
| Template size | Layout | Output | File link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6" × 4" box front | Two covers stacked on one 8.5" × 11" portrait sheet | 2 covers per sheet | Open the cover |
The sheet gives you two identical covers, not a front and a back. Print one sheet and you have covers for two boxes, or a spare for when the first one gets glued on crooked.
How to Print
- Open the printable cover in your web browser.
- Click the blue Print 2 Covers button at the top, or press
Ctrl + P(Cmd + Pon a Mac). - In the print dialog, choose:
- Destination: your printer, or Save as PDF
- Paper size: Letter (8.5 × 11 in)
- Orientation: Portrait
- Scale: 100%, sometimes called Actual Size
- Background graphics: on
- Cut along the dashed corner marks to get each 6" × 4" panel.
Do not let the printer shrink the page
If you leave the scale on "Fit to Printable Area", the cover comes out slightly too small and will not line up with a 6" × 4" box face. Set the scale to 100% before you print.
What Is on the Cover
- Title: SHT40 Temp & Humidity
- Series: Learning MicroPython
- Photo: the assembled kit, with a fingertip on the sensor and the NeoPixel strip lit from blue through green and yellow to orange
- Sensor spec: ±0.2 °C and ±1.8 % relative humidity
Audience Badges
- Ages 10+ to adult
- Students • Libraries • Clubs
- No soldering required
Feature Highlights
- Measure heat and humidity in real time
- Watch your fingertip paint a color bar
- Graph live data right inside Thonny
- Learn how to use the I2C bus to gather sensor data
- Five MicroPython labs, no soldering
What Goes in the Box
The cover advertises the color bar demo, so the box needs the NeoPixel strip as well as the sensor.
| Part | Notes |
|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi Pico | With MicroPython already installed |
| SHT40 breakout board | About $1.65 on eBay |
| 8-pixel NeoPixel stick | Needed for the color bar demo on the cover |
| Solderless breadboard | Half-size is plenty |
| Jumper wires | 4 for the sensor, 3 more for the strip |
| USB cable | Must be a data cable, not charge-only |
The full build instructions are in the SHT40 kit lesson.