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MicroPython Projects
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MicroPython Projects

by Jacob Beningo
April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
7h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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The detailed hardware design

As we look at the hardware architecture, we can see that there are several areas that we can further define in our detailed hardware design. These include the following:

  • Selecting the APDS-9960 development board
  • Assigning I/O pins to interface to the APDS-9960 and the LEDs

There are several different development boards that are available for the APDS-9960. For the most part, they are all relatively comparable. They offer an on-chip regulator so that the development board can accept +5V and often also include a +3V out pin so that other devices can also be powered off that regulator. The two development boards that I like the most are from Adafruit and SparkFun. Either one can work for this project, but I chose ...

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