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Analog to digital - Raspberry Pi Tutorial

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Analog to digital

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- [Instructor] The Raspberry Pi is a digital computer. It thinks everything is either on or off. But the world is analog, with more values than on or off. For example, volume is measured from zero to 11. Temperature can be anywhere from below freezing to blazingly hot! So the Raspberry Pi needs to be able to convert analog data to digital data. Hi, I'm Mark Niemann-Ross, and welcome to this week's edition of Raspberry Pi Weekly. Every week we explore the Raspberry Pi and share useful tips. This week, let's connect the MCP 3008 analog to digital converter to the Raspberry Pi. This integrated circuit provides a digital value of the analog data it's being fed. For this project you'll also need a potentiometer or another source of analog data. Start this project by placing the MCP 3008 chip on a bread board. In this example note that the top of the chip has a small dot. I've put it on this side of the Raspberry Pi.…

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