Though I planned on designing a PCB from scratch for the HDC1000 sensor, I found the amazing work Francesco Truzzi did (http://b.truzzi.me/hdc1000-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-breakout-with-arduino-library/) in designing a neat tiny breakout board for HDC1000.

I did some size reduction and sent it to OSHpark and the PCB's arrived yesterday.


I soon got started to solder teeny HDC1000 sensor, The BGA package turned out to be quite a challenge to our amateur SMD soldering skills.


After a few dead boards, We got a working one!


The reason we chose this HDC1000 chip was because of the capacitive sensing technique TI has used, Making it suitable for our rugged & Weather protected design.
Though TI has pushed it to not recommended for new designs, We would be working on the HDC1010 variant soon!