[PD] GPIO, mcp3008 and Raspbian

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

Hi Ivica, 

 

I was working on a small external for MCP3008 using wiring pi, but I'd love
to try yours if it is possible. Will it be possible to use it as an external
like gpio with vanilla? are you using wiring pi for this?

 

There is nothing in those externals to prevent them from being used in
vanilla. They can be found in the <root
git>/l2ork_addons/raspberry_pi/disis_gpio and disis_spi folders (latter is
the MCP3008 one). Spi one does not rely on wiring pi. AFAIK wiringpi does
not offer spi support but I could be wrong.

 

 

Also, how are you getting the multiple pwm streams?

 

I partially rely on wiringpi inside disis_gpio for software pwm on all pins
(I say partially because wiringpi can only create a new thread for software
pwm but does not offer ability to close the thread other than exiting the
program, which is not an option for an environment like pd). So, each opened
pin will have a separate high priority thread that gives you a 1000Hz PWM.
disis_gpio also supports hardware pwm on pin 18 and that one has some kind
of a logarithmic curve and as such behaves distinctly different but I simply
did not want to go into anything higher than 1000Hz as that would choke the
cpu.

 

HTH 

 

best,

 

J

 

 

 

On Mar 20, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:





On 03/20/2014 12:37 PM, David Medine wrote:

FYI

There is also a RPi GPIO object for Pd by Miller Puckette here:
<http://msp.ucsd.edu/syllabi/206.13w/index.htm> 
http://msp.ucsd.edu/syllabi/206.13w/index.htm

and the  same code with a makefile and build for UDOO here:
<https://github.com/cmuartfab/Udoo/tree/dem-rev/puredata/gpio> 
https://github.com/cmuartfab/Udoo/tree/dem-rev/puredata/gpio

I did see the note from garthz about the architecture collisions. I will
attend to this. Anyway, make sure to use the gpio.l_arm version -- just
delete the other two to avoid problems.


Indeed, disis_gpio is loosely based on gpio. It however also offers things
that gpio (AFAIK) doesn't, like multithreaded pusle-width-modulation
(hardware on pin 18 and software on all pins) with an Arduino-like 0-1023
range. disis_spi is a completely new beast that allows interfacing with
MCP3008 AD converter and provides up to 8 analog input channels that can
provide high-resolution streams with values 0-1023. So, pd-l2ork externals
essentially look to provide an Arduino-like environment.

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