ankitaggarwal011/PiScope

Support for more ADCs

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#8 opened on Aug 12, 2016

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Description

Currently, only ADS1015 analog to digital converter is supported by this project. It would be beneficial to add support for more ADCs, for example MCP3008.

The interface protocol could be either of the supported protocols by Raspberry Pi, for example, I2C, SPI, etc. While the library is implemented in Python, it is possible to use interfaces implemented in C using CPython for better performance.

Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

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Research direction
Study the existing ADS1015 driver code and implement a similar module for MCP3008 using SPI communication.
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python
Domain
embedded iot
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