pymodaq_plugins_arduino 0.0.3

Set of instrument plugins implemented using an Arduino Board

This package regroups a list of instrument created around an arduino board. Some instruments use the Telemetrix library to use python together with the arduino board.

Authors

• Sebastien J. Weber ([e-mail])

Instruments

Below is the list of instruments included in this plugin

Actuators

• LED: control of a multicolor LED using three PWM digital outputs and the Telemetrix library. Allows the control of the three color channel independently

• LEDwithLCD: same as LED actuator but displaying the red, green, blue values on a standard 16x2 liquid crystal display

Installation instructions

• PyMoDAQ version > 4.1.0

LED actuator

The LED actuator uses the telemetrix library. The corresponding sketch should therefore be uploaded on the arduino board. This allows to control peripheral on an Arduino board from python objects on the connected computer. See https://mryslab.github.io/telemetrix/

LEDwithLCD actuator

The LEDwithLCD actuator uses the telemetrix library. The corresponding sketch should therefore be uploaded on the arduino board. It then uses the telemetrix I2C communication protocol to control a LCD equipped with a I2C backpack. The functionalities used to drive the LCD are adapted from a micropython code (https://github.com/brainelectronics/micropython-i2c-lcd) itself adapted from https://github.com/fdebrabander/Arduino-LiquidCrystal-I2C-library