Re: [OctDev] Alpha release of i2c package

[Juan P. C. <car...@if...>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<car...@if...> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Andrius Sutas <and...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I would like to announce a public commit for i2c package in main/i2c. Also,
>> snapshot attached for testing convenience.
>>
>> Simple example:
>>   Assume we are working with AD7991 ADC ( goo.gl/TsFMZ ) and our i2c adapter
>> is at /dev/i2c-0 (hint: nodes are usually created by i2c-dev module)
>>
>>   pkg load i2c
>>
>>   adc = i2c("/dev/i2c-0"); # Open the interface
>>   i2c_addr(adc, bin2dec(00101001)); # Set i2c slave address, see datasheet
>> (Table 8)
>>
>>   # Reads all 4 channels
>>   for i = 1:4
>>       data = i2c_read(adc, 2)
>>   endfor
>>
>>   i2c_write(adc, uint8( [bin2dec("01000000")] )) # Enable only CH2, see
>> datasheet (Table 9)
>>
>>   # Reads ch2, 4 times
>>   for i = 1:4
>>       [data, count] = i2c_read(adc, 2)
>>   endfor
>>
>>   i2c_close(adc)
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Hi Andrius,
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> I haven't testes i2c yet, but I will do it soon. I am very curious!
>
> I just went again through the code and I see no documentation yet.
> Please understand that documentation is a very important (I would say
> critical) art of your programming activity. Without documentation your
> code is not as valuable as it could be! Please document serial and i2c
> properly before continuing developing code.
>
> It is not only necessary to add comments to your code, but also (and
> this is necessary if you want your project to be released publicly, or
> ever migrate to core) add documentation for the user in the help
> string.
>
> Do not underestimate the time and difficulty of documenting your
> functions. A professor of mine used to say documenting is about 30% of
> the time of a project.
>
> Keep up the good job.
>
> --
> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
> -----
> PhD Student
> University of Zürich
> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/

Hi Andrius,

How is it going with the documentations. I haven't seen any updates to
the repos.
Still there?


-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/