Quick Update - Working on Pi Code Today!!
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2018 7:00 pm
Hello everyone!! Sorry to be missing for a while there. We got all the units shipped and there were some other things in life I couldn't put off any longer. I'm back in it today. I'll be going through the Pi code and hopefully getting something posted today or tomorrow at the latest. It's been a long time since I looked at the code but it'll all come back to me.
One of the main things that held me up of just posting it, is I wanted to provide a novice level "how to" guide, but that's a whole other thing and some of you have offered to help with this. What I'm going to do is post what I have with some quick instructions that many of you will understand just fine. I'm impressed with how much you all are doing already with essentially zero guidance from me.
By default the I2C isn't very reliable due to a known bug in the Broadcom chip they use on the Pi. We can't control this but the I2C code I've written uses some small programmable timing delays to get around this. It works pretty well and will allow you to do almost everything from the Pi that you are able to do from the Arduino processor.
I'll get it out there then hopefully you can help each other a bit with any questions, then we'll try to get back on track of getting a novice level guide together.
Thanks for being so patient everyone. I'm getting much more sense of community on this project than on the others and many of you are really skilled in this so I'm excited for sure.
-Kevin
One of the main things that held me up of just posting it, is I wanted to provide a novice level "how to" guide, but that's a whole other thing and some of you have offered to help with this. What I'm going to do is post what I have with some quick instructions that many of you will understand just fine. I'm impressed with how much you all are doing already with essentially zero guidance from me.
By default the I2C isn't very reliable due to a known bug in the Broadcom chip they use on the Pi. We can't control this but the I2C code I've written uses some small programmable timing delays to get around this. It works pretty well and will allow you to do almost everything from the Pi that you are able to do from the Arduino processor.
I'll get it out there then hopefully you can help each other a bit with any questions, then we'll try to get back on track of getting a novice level guide together.
Thanks for being so patient everyone. I'm getting much more sense of community on this project than on the others and many of you are really skilled in this so I'm excited for sure.
-Kevin