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A project log for Large Format Camera

Building a digital large format camera

jimmycalzenjimmy.c.alzen 07/20/2014 at 13:580 Comments

Success! WiFi module is working and connects to AP!

Running all three external devices on the same SPI bus caused some trouble. After a lot of debugging I found out that the CC3000 and the ILI9340 TFT uses different SPI modes, plus the CC3000 library uses an SPI interrupt. The quick-and-dirty fix was to add this to each driver function in Adafruit_ILI9340.cpp:

noInterrupts();

SPI.setDataMode(SPI_MODE0);

  // function code

SPI.setDataMode(SPI_MODE1);

interrupts();

The elegant fix would be to take advantage of the SAM3X's enhanced SPI capabilities to select the correct mode and speed automatically when accessing different devices on the same bus, but then I would have to rewrite all three libraries.

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