RE: QuadCOP: ChipKit Pi and I2C, A Custom Block Protocol

screamingtiger — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:25:48 GMT

Somehow my flowchart disappeared, I added it back.

RE: QuadCOP: ChipKit Pi and I2C, A Custom Block Protocol

balearicdynamics — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:22:05 GMT

Hi Joey,

in my personal opinion, the problem of receiving multiple bytes at a time is another storture of the Arduino behaviour. I prefer, especially when working with low level devices based on microcontrollers, to have the full control of the engine; there is probably the disadvantage of loosing some simplifications but the possibility to develop the parts exactly as they are needed I think it has no price.

Take in account that most of the things that seems "just a joke" with Arduino libraries it is not because the AVR 8 bit slow micro is better than the 80 MHz more powerful PIC microcontroller but because someone though (no comment) to the Arduino developers creating a sort of ecosystem based on the excessive simplification. I repeat, this is my personal opinion but I had proved this by experience many times: every time I had to develop something serious with the AVR micro I had to ignore the libraries and in the better case rebuild or hack one and in the worst write down real code.

Without forgetting that the entire concept of the Arduino IDE - as I have already discussed with [mention:753dd297e7584712840f1c3de8add506:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] - is far from the concept of programming and put so many limiations to be unusable for serious projects like your.

ToDo: Make this a library that can be used for both the chipkit, and the arduino.

Ti hink that making an unified library (this or any other, included those already existing) for both the devices is not the worth; IMHO this means a downsizing of the features for sure.

Enrico