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Install software and test

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Install software and test

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- [Instructor] With the hardware all installed, let's set up the software to control these devices. Now is the time to connect power to the Raspberry Pi and let it boot up. This is also a good time to connect the five volt battery to the PCA9685. When the Raspberry Pi is booted up, go to preferences, Raspberry Pi configuration, interfaces, and enable I2C. Now check to make sure both devices are on the I2C bus. To do that, open up a terminal window, and type in sudo i2cdetect -y 0. You may get an error, that's okay. Also type in sudo i2cdetect -y 1. There's a couple of notes you'll want to take here. First of all, in my case, -y 1 gave me results back, and that's what's expected. The second thing that it did is give me a couple of numbers. You can see in the line that starts with 40, there's the number 40, and the line that starts with 70, there's the number 70, and at the very end is the number 77. You'll want to make a…

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