using Parallax Propeller

[martinschuberteu]

Hi,
I have a Propeller Hat (https://shop.pimoroni.de/products/propeller-hat) that I'd like to use with johnny-five. Would this require an expander or an I2C backpack, and are there any documents available on how to create one of these? Thank you!

[reconbot]

It looks like it can be controlled directly via i2c according to it's open source documentation. The raspi-io docs will show you how to read and write via i2c. The code for the propeller-hat has examples of the device via i2c but as far as I know johnny-five does not yet have an expander class for this particular device.

I would take a look at some of the existing expanders for an example of you might write your own. I think it would be a cool plugin that would help a lot of people.

[rwaldron]

@reconbot if we can get one of these, we can get support added.

[dtex]

Hi @martinschuberteu,

Johnny-Five contributors and maintainers are loathe to close issues where someone has a need. We don't want anyone to ever feel that we don't care, but we just haven't gotten to this feature yet. Rather than leave it languishing as an open issue we have created a Requested Features page and added your request for the Parallax Propeller there.