SX1509 PWM I/O expander library needed [solved]

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SX1509 PWM I/O expander library needed [solved]

Post by easylab4kids » Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:34 am

UPDATE: Library here --> viewtopic.php?f=14&t=9225
This topic is solved. See above.

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I'm in need of a Micropython library for the SX1509 IO expander with PWM. Sparkfun has an SX1509 lib for Arduino.
My experience with writing libs & manipulating I2C-registers is sketchy at best .

If none exist i will try creating a lib, though I cant make sense of the chip-register commands as defined in its datasheet.

If anyone made a lib, or has an example which can be adapted please share.

SX1509 breakout:
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Re: SX1509 PWM I/O expander library needed

Post by easylab4kids » Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:19 pm

My first attempt at a library.
Any improvements, please let me know!

https://github.com/pappavis/micropython-sx1509-library
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Re: SX1509 PWM I/O expander library needed

Post by scruss » Thu Oct 22, 2020 3:14 pm

Ooh, neat — thanks!

While the PWM expander looks super useful, what caught my eye about this chip was its ability to decode a debounced keyboard matrix of up to 8×8 keys. Too much bad code has been written to manage keyboards, and this chip has the potential to make most of it go away.
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