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Sensor Drivers

Drivers for input sensors — touch panels, accelerometers, audio analyzers, and similar.

Resistive touch​

A driver that uses 2 analog pins + 2 digital pins to read a display's resistive touch panel. Less accurate than dedicated capacitive controllers, but very low cost. See Touch Screen → Resistive for the full example.

NuGet package: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.Touch.ResistiveTouch.

FT5xx6 and GSL1680​

GSL1680

Common capacitive touch controller chips used in display modules — the FocalTech FT5xx6 and the Silead GSL1680. Both report touch positions in display pixels (no calibration step needed) and support multi-touch. See Touch Screen → Capacitive for the full example.

NuGet packages: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.FocalTech.FT5xx6 or GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.GSL1680.

LIS2HH12​

LIS2HH12

A 3-axis accelerometer from STMicroelectronics. The driver is set to ±2g by default; output values range from −1024 to 1024.

NuGet package: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.STMicroelectronics.LIS2HH12.

var lis2hh12 = new LIS2HH12Controller(I2cController.FromName(FEZBit.I2cBus.Accelerometer));

while (true) {
    Debug.WriteLine("X = " + lis2hh12.X);
    Debug.WriteLine("Y = " + lis2hh12.Y);
    Debug.WriteLine("Z = " + lis2hh12.Z);
    Thread.Sleep(500);
}

MSGEQ7​

MSGEQ7

A 7-band audio spectrum analyzer equalizer filter chip. Useful for sound-reactive lighting and VU meters.

NuGet package: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Drivers.MixedSignalIntegrated.MSGEQ7.