On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:32:02AM +0200, Crt Mori wrote: > Hi Rohit, > There are many companies for hobbyists which sell sensors included in > IIO subsystem and for sure some electronic component store in your > local area. Price of sensor can be from 0.10 USD to 10 USD. Then you > plug this sensor to your Linux board (Beaglebone Black is Linux > Foundation preferred, although there are others including Raspberry PI > - can even be RPI Zero if you are on a budget, Odroid, Linaro, ...) > and you will need to provide correct voltage/current for the sensor. > Easiests is that you pick sensors which are 3.3V or 5V domains, > because you have pins on most Linux boards with this voltages and > these pins supply enough current for most iio sensors. Then you just > connect (wire) power pin on sensor to power pin on your board, and > then communication pins from sensor to board and ground from sensor to > board. Some addition into dts will be needed for the Linux to know > where your sensor is connected at, but then it should work as > plug-and-play. > > I hope I did not miss too many steps in between :) > > Crt Hi Crt, Thanks for replying, your answer was super detailed and helpful. Thanks, Rohit
