I’ve been using I2C a lot lately and something that keeps popping up is the need to send large numbers. I2C normally only sends a single byte at a time so you are limited to 255 as the largest number. This post will show you how I break large numbers apart to send them over I2C and reassemble them on the other side.
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I ran into a bit of a weird problem a little while back when using I2C on Arduinos. I friend also had the problem recently so I figured maybe it was common enough that this post could help other people. The problem occurs when you have the master request a certain number of bytes from the slave. Except when the slave sends the bytes back, they all show up as -1 except for the last one. Here is some example code and a workaround solution.
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I’m working on a project where I need several sensors that communicate back to a central processor. Since I’ll have several of these sensors I need them to be cheap and the ATtiny85 jumped to mind. The only problem is that I’ve never used i2c with the ATtiny series before. I read dozens of “tutorials” about it from around the web and couldn’t find a nice simple example. This is my solution.
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