Maxim Eyes Panasonic’s GridEye

Touch is the de facto controller. We have touch screens for everything nowadays. But what if you didn’t have to touch anything to control it? With just a wave of a hand, things would move how you want them to. You enter a room, and all the lights turn on. They are too bright; you wave your hands, and the lights dim. Luke Skywalker would be jealous.

Well, this is possible today. Maxim has an evaluation board for the Panasonic GridEye. It uses the 1-wire interface for easy communication. There are also two different design boards available for use with this evaluation board. Maxim has the MAXREFDES130# which is set up for house lighting control with 8 relays on the board. They also have the MAXREFDES132# which is great for other general microcontroller designs.

Using the Maxim board, an Arduino Uno, and the MAXREFDES132#, we created a gesture controller for DC motors. You can watch it in this Another Geek Moment Video.

You can also read about it on our EEwiki.

Über den Autor

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Ben Roloff, Associate Applications Engineer bei DigiKey, unterstützt Kunden seit 2016 bei allen ihren Mikrocontroller-Anforderungen. Er wurde 1991 geboren, in einer Zeit, in der das Internet für den Hausgebrauch noch unbekannt war. Das Internet wurde langsam zum Thema, während er die Schule besuchte - so wuchs Ben gewissermaßen mit dem Internet auf. Es war sein Interesse an Computern, das ihn dazu brachte, eine Ausbildung in Computertechnik zu absolvieren, und so erhielt er einen Bachelor of Science in Computertechnik von der South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

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