MCP3021 – The Longhorn Engineer https://longhornengineer.com Robotics, Pinball, Hacking, Portables Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:54:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 OctoPROBER ADC working! https://longhornengineer.com/2014/02/08/octoprober-adc-working/ Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:27:53 +0000 https://longhornengineer.com/?p=2098 Continue reading OctoPROBER ADC working! →]]> 20140208_062003

Finished programming the ADC which is a MCP3021. It is a 10bit i2c compatible ADC with one channel. A limited ADC but perfect for measuring battery voltages.

Operation is very simple. Just request a word from the device using 10011011 as the device ID and it will spit out the analog value. I had some issues with the i2c driver I used though.

The ADC is supposed to return the 10bit value like so 0000XXXXXXXXXX00. I was receiving XXXXXX000000XXXX. The upper and lower bytes where transposed. Fixed by swapping them around.

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Finished REV 0 of OctoPROBER last night. I added a MCP3021 which is a I2C 10bit ADC with one analog channel. It will be used to monitor the battery voltage and indicate when the lithium battery is close to being dead.

Schematic

Schematic is a bit of a mess but I will be cleaning it up.

Files are on GitHub. Will start programming the hardware test software this weekend for the propeller.

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