Ambient 2 Click Board on Arduino101

A short article about testing MikroElektronika Ambient 2 click board on the Arduino 101 microcontroller.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino 101

MikroE Arduino UNO shield - click board

MikroE Ambient 2 click board

Story

Introduction

This is a simple example of the Ambient 2 click board from MikroElektronika. The application is running on the Arduino 101 (Intel Curie).

Ambient 2 click board

Ambient 2 click carries TI’s OPT3001 Ambient Light sensor. It’s a small (2mm x 2mm) single-chip lux meter that measures only the visible part of the light spectrum from any kind of source (mimicking the way humans see light). It does so by filtering out 99% of infrared light. The measurement range of Ambient 2 click is from 0.01 lux to 83k lux, and a 23-bit resolution. Communication with the target MCU is done through mikroBUS I2C pins, with an additional INT pin which can be used for triggering wake-up events (offloading the MCU).

Code

Ambient2.ino

#include <Wire.h>

#define OPT3001_ADDRESS 0x44


typedef union {
  uint16_t rawData;
  struct {
    uint16_t Result : 12;
    uint8_t Exponent : 4;
  };
} OPT3001_ER;

OPT3001_ER er;

void setup() {
  // put your setup code here, to run once:
  Serial.begin(9600);
  Serial.println("ClosedCube OPT3001 Arduino Test");
  Wire.begin();
  Wire.beginTransmission(OPT3001_ADDRESS);
  Wire.write(0x01); // Registar 01 je konfiguracioni
  Wire.endTransmission();
  Wire.beginTransmission(OPT3001_ADDRESS);
  Wire.write(0xC6);
  Wire.endTransmission();

}

void loop() {
  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
  Wire.beginTransmission(OPT3001_ADDRESS);
  Wire.write(0x00);
  Wire.endTransmission(); 
  readData(&er.rawData);
  int lux = 0.01*pow(2, er.Exponent)*er.Result;
  Serial.println(lux);
  delay(500);
}

void readData(uint16_t* data) {
    uint8_t buf[2];

  Wire.requestFrom(OPT3001_ADDRESS, 2);

  int counter = 0;
  while (Wire.available() < 2)
  {
    counter++;
    delay(10);
    if (counter > 250)
      return;
  }

  Wire.readBytes(buf, 2);
  *data = (buf[0] << 8) | buf[1];

  return;
}

Credits

Zoran Roncevic

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Ambient 2 Click Board on Arduino101