[PD] Advice on creating an external object for controlling a DAC breakout board

[Martin Peach]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 5:29 AM Alexandros <adrcki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, I scanned through your code and your object doesn't depend on
> wiringPi, and it's actually a really nice object. By no means would I be
> able to write something as close to this!

Thanks Alexandros!

>
> I have one question though, in the help patch you write the following
> comment: "Only one I2C device is available on the Pi.". How come? Don't
> I2C devices all connect to one bus and listen only when they are
> addressed? Currently I don't have more than one I2C devices to check,
> but only one.

Sorry, I meant to say that on the Pi header there is only one
accessible I2C bus. You can have up to 127 devices on it.

Martin


>
> Thanks,
> Alexandros
>
> On 16/8/20 10:31 π.μ., Alexandros wrote:
> > Actually you're right, signal rate could be an overkill for something
> > like that. I'll go with control rate. Does your object use wiringPi? If
> > so, I'd go for creating a new object as wiringPi is now deprecated as
> > stated here http://wiringpi.com/news/ since the developer got bullied
> > about support and all. I'll try the pigpio software. Still, I'll give
> > your object a try and peek into the code, thanks!
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the hints!
> >
> > Alexandros
> >
> > On 15/8/20 10:02 μ.μ., Martin Peach wrote:
> >> Hi Alexandros,
> >> I made an external  [pii2c] which should be available via deken along
> >> with the source code. You could use that to talk to the dacs, but not
> >> at signal rate. What you want is already done by any 4-channel USB
> >> audio interface for much less hassle, and better resolution with [dac~
> >> 1 2 3 4]. The 4-DAC board could be used to provide control voltages
> >> for an analog synth or something like that at control rate (once per
> >> 64-sample block).
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 2:25 AM Alexandros <adrcki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I want to create an external object to control a quad DAC board with a Raspberry Pi, namely this one. As the object should run at signal rate, I'm confused as to how I should control the rate of values sent to the DAC.
> >>>
> >>> Since all signal objects in Pd work on DSP ticks, processing as many samples as the block size as fast as possible, how should I go about sending values to the DAC on a one-sample based clock? Is resampling the way to go? If so, how can this be done? I'm checking the source files, specifically d_dac.c and m_pd.h, but can't make much out of it. My C skills are very limited, hence all the questions above...
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