PCA9685 dimmer
Information
You want to make a cool robot, maybe a hexapod walker, or maybe just a piece of art with a lot of moving parts. Or maybe you want to drive a lot of LEDs with precise PWM output. Then you realize that your micro-controller has a limited number of PWM outputs! What now? You could give up OR you could just get this handy PWM and Servo driver breakout.
When we saw this chip, we quickly realized what an excellent add-on this would be. Using only two pins, control 16 free-running PWM outputs! You can even chain up 62 breakouts to control up to 992 PWM outputs (which we would really like to see since it would be glorious)
Setup
In order to use the PCA9685 dimmer use the following settings:
Mandatory
- Hardware
- PCA9685 dimmer
- Address
- <I2C Address>,[I2C Bus] where the I2C bus is optional
Ex:1,0x40
Calibration
This is only available for dimmers.
- Dimmer frequency in Hz
- Default frequency: 5000 Hz
Other settings can be found at the relay setup information