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AS5600 Tinkering

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Frequency Adjusting Thingy

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Mounted on the remains of an old potentiometer. The magnet is held about 1mm from the chip.
Example Code This code example contains two useful functions.

readAngle(), which should be called about every 30ms. It returns the amount to change frequency as a signed 32 bit number.

readAGC(), which can be called whenever you like to check magnet spacing. It returns a value from 0 to 127 (when Vcc = 3.3V).

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