This is a quick little post on M5Stack embedded hardware.
I'm going to use the Arduino 2 IDE with the M5Stack Timer Camera F in this example. I just opened up the Arduino IDE and updated the boards and libraries. I had previously installed the M5Stack library on the Arduino IDE.
I'm going to see if this TimerCam library on GitHub will work: https://github.com/m5stack/TimerCam-arduino. The 1.0.1 release, in zip form, is here: https://github.com/m5stack/TimerCam-arduino/releases/tag/1.0.1
I'm importing the zip file here:
Then copied in the source example for the LED (here) and compiled:
Nothing much happened on the TimerCam other than to see the LED turn off briefly. So, it appears to work.
Next, trying out serial communication to listen for power measurements. Note that the serial monitor needs to be set to 115kBaud:
And that's all for now... will need to try the camera itself, shortly.
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