[ DTP! superscript-2  in I2C here] In April 2017, the first Qwiic boards were developed and released through SparkX, SparkFun’s skunk works division. Qwiic’s origins are surprisingly simple: SparkFun Founder Nathan Seidle was tired of soldering the same four male headers into place, then running the four wires to a development board. He wanted small, polarized connectors with color-coded cables. It needed to be daisy-chain friendly, and it needed to allow boards to easily communicate via I2C.