Jumper pads for I2C addressing

Using solder bridgeable pads is fine if this just a one-off board but for production purposes it is more common to use shorting (0 ohm) resistors as these can be automatically assembled with a pick & place machine. So if your other components are 1206 then just use 1206 resistor footprints.

Also, it is more common to have pull-up resistors and use the jumpers to short to ground.

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