Prototyping with the I2C protocol
In the previous section, sensors or actuators were directly communicating with Arduino via digital, analog, or PWM pins. These methods are utilized by a large number of basic, low-level sensors and you will be widely using them in your future Arduino projects. Beside these methods, there is a wide variety of popular sensors that are based on integrated circuit (IC), which require different ways of communication. These IC-based advanced sensors utilize I2C- or SPI bus-based methods to communicate with the microcontroller. As we are going to use I2C-based sensors in the upcoming projects, the section will only cover the I2C protocol and practical example to understand the protocol in a better way. Once you understand ...
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