I/O Blocks Toolkit

Working on TWI/I2C terminal for Arduino Uno. Firmware is there, documentation isn't, but this is going to change soon.

Hardware testing is rather obscure topic among #makers crowd. Most projects are born on a bench and stay there or move into a box. If you ever done some serious software engineering, you probably heard about software testing.

How about doing hardware unit test... in Python?

We made a small example where we explore MCP7940N RTC by writing a test for it. Test verifies:

1. our wiring and I2C communication
2. RTC response (using programmable Alarm and Arduino DIO port)

This example may look trivial, but it opens few interesting opportunities, like testing maximum bus wire length, temperature range, power supply voltage, etc.

You can find it on our project page: https://iobtoolkit.com/s/hwtest/

We just updated our installation instructions with video:

https://iobtoolkit.com/docs/installation.html#i-o-blocks-packages

Check it out and comment.

We updated our I2C Terminal tutorial. Thanks for anonymous user for pointing out few errors.

https://iobtoolkit.com/s/i2c/

We started tracking example scripts in Github repository . Check it out. It's modest for now, but it will grow.

If you'd like to see some example, just ask us. We'll try hard to deliver.

We just published Hello, world! example for Arduino Uno. Check it out here:

https://iobtoolkit.com/s/blinky

It shows how to use digital I/O in IOB Control and Python.

Updated our FAQ: https://iobtoolkit.com/docs/faq.html

Added screenshots in project gallery.

Today we push our first bugfix release: iobtoolkit 1.0.1. We fixed I2C terminal and added I2C Reset-On-Error for Arduino Leonardo.

http://iobtoolkit.com/download/

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#‎prototyping‬ I2C driver for MCP7940N RTC clock with ‪#‎iobtoolkit‬ and ‪#‎python‬:

https://iobtoolkit.com/s/python-mcp7940n

We're going to save time but moving dirty, low-level mental work outside hostile C/C++/Assembly environment to nice Python IDE. Check it out.