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A couple of Arduino libraries I wrote, AS3935 lightning detector and TCS3471 color/light sensor

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A bit of a shameless self-promotion image I wrote two libraries for two interesting sensor chips, first is AS3935 lightning detector chip, that can warn you about coming storm while it is still 40 kilometers away and the second in high dinamic range 16bit resolution color and light sensor chip TCS34717. Both libraries in my opinion are interesting in the way communications are implemented, library code does not access any other library, like SPI or Wire, directly, but rather relies on user sketch to provide functions to communicate over SPI or i2c bus, which makes them usable with almost any imaginable setup and scenario.

Both libraries can be downloaded from my github - https://github.com/raivisr?tab=repositories

 

And break-outs if anyone is interested in these, can be purchased here - https://www.tindie.com/shops/TAUTIC

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  • Will this code work with the board sold by Embedded Adventures?  Same chip.

     

    http://www.embeddedadventures.com/as3935_lightning_sensor_module_mod-1016.html

     

    Don't think it has all the same outputs..

     

    and can I use an arduino uno instead of the Mega?

     

    thanks

  • Former Member
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    Neither do I have a board sold by EA, nor I have Uno, but I have reports of library working with Uno no problems.

    While claims of EA that they have each board "pre-tuned" make me doubt their level of competence, after all, tuning depends on temperature (even with C0G capacitors in tank circuit) and bunch of other conditions and should be redone once those conditions change, besides, library takes care of that and there is nothing tricky there.

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    Hi Raivis,

     

    Our lightning sensors, along with many of our other weather related modules are being used by people around the world to find out more about the world around them.

     

    We have provided open source C software to communicate with the sensor, including deciding on the tuning values, but provide the tuning parameters we found when testing as a service to our customers.

     

    We pride ourselves on making awesome products that people love and we are always open to feedback. Feel free to drop us a line at feedback at embeddedadventures dot com or post up here if you have specific questions. Happy to help.

     

    kind regards

    Ian.

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    Hello Ravis.I use the library of AS3935 but when I compile the following appears

    'AS3935' does not name a type to

    LightningDetector: 48: error: 'AS3935' does not name a type

    LightningDetector.pde: In function 'void setup ()':

    LightningDetector: 64: error: 'AS3935' was not declared in this scope

    LightningDetector.pde: In function 'void loop ()':

    LightningDetector: 102: error: 'AS3935' was not declared in this scope

    LightningDetector.pde: In function 'void printAS3935Registers ()':

    LightningDetector: 130: error: 'AS3935' was not declared in this scope

    can you help me?

    Best regards

    Pedro

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  • in reply to Former Member

    Hello Ravis.I use the library of AS3935 but when I compile the following appears

    'AS3935' does not name a type to

    LightningDetector: 48: error: 'AS3935' does not name a type

    LightningDetector.pde: In function 'void setup ()':

    LightningDetector: 64: error: 'AS3935' was not declared in this scope

    LightningDetector.pde: In function 'void loop ()':

    LightningDetector: 102: error: 'AS3935' was not declared in this scope

    LightningDetector.pde: In function 'void printAS3935Registers ()':

    LightningDetector: 130: error: 'AS3935' was not declared in this scope

    can you help me?

    Best regards

    Pedro

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