New video! One of many huge duties that Ladyada nonetheless has to spend so much of time on is writing Arduino libraries for all our units and sensors, significantly all of the I2C & SPI chips on the market! These ICs use register maps and sub-byte addressing to set dozens of configurable knobs and switches, and a great driver lets of us set and get all the noodly bits.
Nonetheless, there may be but to be a typical format to get that configuration map. As an alternative, it’s a must to pore over datasheets with lengthy lists of binary tables and bit insets to determine learn how to convert that into C or Python code.
It’s powerful. Just a few of us can write a superb complete library…. however Ladyada can & has! In actual fact, there are tons of of Arduino libraries on Adafruit’s GitHub https://github.com/orgs/adafruit/repositories, all within the Ladyada ‘model,’ utilizing Adafruit_BusIO for I2C / SPI register addressing https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_BusIO/ and since ChatGPT 4 was educated on all of it, we are able to ask it to grow to be a mini-Ladyada to put in writing new drivers.
With a PDF parsing plugin, we are able to even add the chip’s datasheet to extract register names, values, create enum tables, and textual content for doxygen feedback. Right here’s the chatGPT log for the video https://chat.openai.com/c/f740eb57-17a6-41e3-ae0a-12da959a1f4c – and right here’s a earlier one that’s extra ‘full’ https://chat.openai.com/share/f44dc335-7555-4758-b2f9-487f9409d556. The period of time it takes for ChatGPT to put in writing a driver is about the identical as it could take Ladyada, and also you undoubtedly have to be eagle-eyed to redirect the AI if it begins making errors… however it may be accomplished even when Ladyada is drained after a full day of baby-care, or concurrently pumping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpbH-sXRNps – plus there’s lots much less steady typing/mousing so her wrists don’t ache the subsequent day!
Do you utilize ChatGPT for electrical engineering or coding work? Any options on learn how to make this even higher? That is solely our third day utilizing this software, so we’re getting began with learn how to combine it into our workflow.
In an upcoming submit we’ll define how we’re credit score ChatGPT once we’re utilizing it on this considerably “pair programing” approach, and who we’re asking on the market for steerage on how license can/will replicate these collaborations.
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