Qwiic_SCMD_Py

Python module for the qwiic motor driver

This python package is a port of the existing SparkFun Serial Controlled Motor Driver Arduino Library

This package can be used in conjunction with the overall SparkFun qwiic Python Package

New to qwiic? Take a look at the entire SparkFun qwiic ecosystem.

Contents

• Supported Plaforms
• Dependencies
• Installation
• Documentation

Supported Platforms

The qwiic Python package current supports the following platforms:

• Raspberry Pi
• NVidia Jetson Nano
• Google Coral Development Board

Dependencies

This driver package depends on the qwiic I2C driver: Qwiic_I2C_Py

Documentation

The SparkFun qwiic SCMD module documentation is hosted at ReadTheDocs

Installation

PyPi Installation

This repository is hosted on PyPi as the sparkfun-qwiic-scmd package. On systems that support PyPi installation via pip, this library is installed using the following commands

For all users (note: the user must have sudo privileges):

sudo pip install sparkfun-qwiic-scmd

For the current user:

pip install sparkfun-qwiic-scmd

Local Installation

To install, make sure the setuptools package is installed on the system.

Direct installation at the command line:

python setup.py install

To build a package for use with pip:

python setup.py sdist

A package file is built and placed in a subdirectory called dist. This package file can be installed using pip.

cd dist
pip install sparkfun_qwiic_scmd-<version>.tar.gz
  

Example Use

TBD