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Hi All.

I'm currently doing a project, exploring how UAVs can be used for environmental surveys, in an architectural context.
I've been spending the last week trying to properly understand the i2c interface on the Crazyflie, but in the end had to give up, as I needed to get some data in. All about that data. So I grabbed the trusty LDR, a photo deck and a trimpot, since i didn't know the upper and lower resistance of the LDR, and threw a deck together in probably 10 mins. The driver took another hour, and presto, a flying sensor was born. The range is a little off, and it's not suitable for actual surveys, but for Proof of Concept, it's working like a charm.

The CF rocks, and the CFlib gives a lot of possibilities, even for non CS users.

The initial mapping text.

Nicely done!

Maybe I can help regarding the I2C interface? The functions to use are in i2cdev.c and should be pretty straight forward. If you are using the expansion port the I2C device is I2C1_DEV. As an example have a look in this file.

Thank you Tobias.

I will give the i2cdev a go again today and report with any problems.

Maybe i should say that I'm trying to develop for the TSL2561 package.

Good news. From a fresh start based on your example, Tobias, i actually got it up and working now! Will post code as soon as it's human readable. And then there's a bit of for finishing the deck.

Pro tip, if you don't have the breakout deck, female-female jumper cables works really well.

Great, I'm looking forward to your results!

Broke the female headers on my protodeck, and to avoid having to resolder things in the future, i made this little guy, inspired by breadboards. The right-most pins are connected, so you can patch from any of the left most headers, to any of the rows.

Creative indeed

Yes. 1 proto deck, 4 different sensors to test, creativity is applied.