News Create a Raspberry Pi Light Show with Analog Inputs

[Admin]

We use three potentiometers and an Adafruit Neopixel to show how you can use analog dials to control a Raspberry Pi.

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[SonoraTechnical]

You need to enable the SPI Interface in the RaspberryPI as well. The omission of any mention of SPI in this article is odd.... It's what allows the 'I/O' expansion in this tutorial, that is the ability to accept analog inputs. The MCP3008 is an A/D converter, which relays the info back to the RaspberryPi over the SPI Interface.... similar to what you might do for I/O expansion over an UART or I2C interface.

 

[biglesp]

You need to enable the SPI Interface in the RaspberryPI as well. The omission of any mention of SPI in this article is odd.... It's what allows the 'I/O' expansion in this tutorial, that is the ability to accept analog inputs. The MCP3008 is an A/D converter, which relays the info back to the RaspberryPi over the SPI Interface.... similar to what you might do for I/O expansion over an UART or I2C interface.

Hello, thanks for your comment.
We are using the GPIO Zero Python 3 module to handle communication with the MCP3008 and this has two SPI modes.

1. A software SPI which is always available and needs no further configuration, but it is much slower than hardware.
2. A hardware SPI which is enabled when the SPI kernel module is enabled via raspi-config or the GUI Raspberry Pi configuration tool.

GPIO Zero Documentation for SPI
https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api_spi.html

I hope that this clears the issue for you. Many thanks for reading.