Beginning Arduino

Summary

Chapter 11 has shown you how to use a digital pressure sensor and communicate with it over a Serial Peripheral Interface. You have been introduced to the basic concepts of SPI and how it works. Now that you know roughly how SPI works, you can use the great SPI library bundled with version 0019 of the Arduino library. This will do all of the hard work for you when communicating with any other SPI devices. You have learned how to use SPI to read data from the great little SCP1000 pressure sensor. If you wish to make your own weather station, this inexpensive sensor is an ideal choice. I chose this sensor for an amateur attempt at a high altitude balloon project, as it is small, accurate, and easy to use. It also gives pressure readings ...