Wire Library
The Wire library provides access to a multitude of I2C devices, not just the DS1307 real-time clock, and we used it in Chapter 8 to talk to the BlinkM MinM smart LED. Likewise, while we have typically used analog sensors for input in our projects, these could be replaced with I2C devices that would offer us many benefits that outweigh the added complexity of talking to them. I2C can be used to read from many different devices, such as accelerometers, electronic compasses, and even FM radios. Because every device will have its own requirements, we will only briefly discuss the standard functions of the Wire library here.
begin()
Like other libraries, we need to call the begin() function once in our code, in this case to join the I2C ...
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