aaronk6 / ambient-light-v2-bricklet

Measures ambient light up to 64000lux

Ambient Light Bricklet 2.0

This repository contains the firmware source code and the hardware design files. The documentation generator configs can be found at https://github.com/Tinkerforge/generators

Repository Content

software/:

• examples/: Examples for all supported languages
• build/: Compiled files
• src/: Source code of firmware
• Makefile: Makefile to build project

hardware/:

• Contains KiCad project files and additionally schematics as PDF

datasheets/:

• Contains datasheets for sensors and complex ICs that are used

Hardware

The hardware is designed with the open source EDA Suite KiCad (http://www.kicad-pcb.org). Before you are able to open the files, you have to install the Tinkerforge kicad-libraries (https://github.com/Tinkerforge/kicad-libraries). You can either clone them directly in hardware/ or clone them in a separate folder and symlink them into hardware/ (ln -s kicad_path/kicad-libraries project_path/hardware). After that you can open the .pro file in hardware/ with KiCad and from there view and modify the schematics and the PCB layout.

Software

If you want to do your own Brick/Bricklet firmware development we highly recommend that you use our build environment setup script and read the tutorial (https://www.tinkerforge.com/en/doc/Tutorials/Tutorial_Build_Environment/Tutorial.html).

To compile the C code we recommend you to install the newest GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain (https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+download). You also need to install bricklib (https://github.com/Tinkerforge/bricklib) and brickletlib (https://github.com/Tinkerforge/brickletlib).

You can either clone it directly in software/src/ or clone it in a separate folder and symlink it into software/src/ (ln -s bricklib_path/bricklib project_path/software/src/ and ln -s brickletlib_path/brickletlib project_path/software/src/). Finally make sure to have CMake installed (http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html).

After that you can build the firmware by invoking make in software/. The firmware (.bin) can then be found in software/build/ and uploaded with brickv (click button "Flashing" on start screen).