Chipkit Core with Basic I/O shield?

Created Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:18:44 +0000 by l34nder

l34nder

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:18:44 +0000

Is there any plans of adding an Uno32+Basic I/O shield board to the board list? I guess my question really is, what would such a board configuration in Arduino IDE give extra to the developer? Would that config give easier access to any of the I/O shield components?

256Kbit I2C EEPROM 128x32 pixel OLED graphic display I2C temperature sensor I2C daisy chain connector 4 open drain FET drivers Analog potentiometer 4 push buttons & 4 slide switches 8 discrete LEDs

/Claes

majenko

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 22:09:53 +0000

The Basic IO shield is just a shield. It has no place in a board configuration. There are libraries available for all the peripherals on the Basic IO shield - just install them for "easier" access to the devices on the shield.

l34nder

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 22:32:39 +0000

Thanks. As I suspected then.

/Claes

majenko

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 23:55:48 +0000

If there was a way to incorporate the shield and UNO32 together into one config, which incidentally there isn't, then we would have to do the same for all the other boards. What about the people that use basic IO with the uc32 or the max32, or wf32 or wi-fire... It would be massive amounts of work and a nightmare to maintain.

l34nder

Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:32:25 +0000

If there was a way to incorporate the shield and UNO32 together into one config, which incidentally there isn't, then we would have to do the same for all the other boards. ... It would be massive amounts of work and a nightmare to maintain.

Makes perfect sense. Simple enough to just use the libraries for the peripherals.