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SiriusHardware · 26th Mar 2023, 1:50 pm

I seem to remember having to bit-bang the one-wire protocol for my own Arduino DS18B20 project, or maybe I just did that so that I gained a better understanding of it. Unfortunately I can't find that Arduino code now, it may have been on a Linux netbook where the Linux installation got completely smashed up when I let it try to update its Linux distro to a newer version - that's always a fatal mistake for me.

Pre-built libraries are great for getting things up and running quickly but they rather absolve you of the need to know exactly what you are doing. (Which is of course the philosophy of Arduino, to enable people to use microcontrollers and peripheral ICs without necessarily having to understand them at register level).

26th Mar 2023, 1:50 pm	#210
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,560	Re: Idiot building a MK14 thread I seem to remember having to bit-bang the one-wire protocol for my own Arduino DS18B20 project, or maybe I just did that so that I gained a better understanding of it. Unfortunately I can't find that Arduino code now, it may have been on a Linux netbook where the Linux installation got completely smashed up when I let it try to update its Linux distro to a newer version - that's always a fatal mistake for me. Pre-built libraries are great for getting things up and running quickly but they rather absolve you of the need to know exactly what you are doing. (Which is of course the philosophy of Arduino, to enable people to use microcontrollers and peripheral ICs without necessarily having to understand them at register level).