Raspberry Pi

I’m working on launching a high-altitude balloon later this year with a Raspberry Pi serving as its flight computer. The Raspberry Pi is an excellent tool because it allows you to do most common tasks at a higher level of abstraction than other MCU platforms. However, it lacks at least one of the major conveniences of MCU’s like the AVR that I’m accustomed to working with - the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). In this article, I’ll describe one solution to the missing ADC, albeit a little complex. For this project, I’m using an ATTinyx61 to serve as the ADC, communicating with the RPi as a slave on the I2C bus.