Requested Features

AKA "Johnny-Five's Most Wanted"

Johnny-Five supports a wide variety of components, boards, and protocols but the world of hardware is huge. There are occasionally requests for new devices. We track those requests below.

We hope this will be a place where new and existing contributors will come to see how they can help this amazing community. All of these issues and pull-requests are closed but only temporarily. All they need is a motivated contributor.

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New Boards/IO Plug-Ins

Asus Tinker Board #1421

NanoPC T-4 #1502

Omega2+ #1334

Orange Pi #1508

Rainbowduino Discontinued? #574

Digispark Production halted? #1812, #1703

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New Classes

Sound Generator/Synthesizer Class #1410

• SIDuinoi2c #1410
• sid-arduino-lib backpack (Doesn't exist yet) #1410
• YM3812 OPL2 (requires SPI) #1410
• Adafruit Audio FX Sound Board #936

GSM/Cellular

• SIM800l #1136

Receiver

• IR Receiver Module #434, #1580
• RC Receiver #1071
• RFID Receiver #804

Gas/Air Quality

• BME680 #1479

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New Devices

Compass

• QMC5883 #1486

Expander

• Propeller Hat #1139
• 74HC4067 #939
• 74HC4051 #939
• 74HC165 #456
• CD4021B #456, #1553

GPS

• SIM808 #1392
• Sparkfun Venus #1074

IMU

• LSM9DSO #1072
• MMA7455 #1535
• MPU-9250 #1446

LCD

• QC1602A v2.0 #658

LED.Digits

• HT16K33 Backpack #1022
• 8-bit 595 driver #969

LED.Matrix

• HT1632C #1000, #1006
• MY9221 #574

Light

• TSL2591 #1105

Sensor

• HX711 Load Cell Amplifier (Requires SPI)#884
• INA219 High Side DC Current Sensor Breakout #1500

Servo

• Five wire servos #1019
• DMM Servos #1559

Thermometer

• MAX31855K (Requires SPI) #1408, #738
• SHT11 #1233
• MAX6675 (Requires SPI) #738

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New Class Features

Expander

• Add the ability to specify PWM range per pin instead of per expander #1585

IMU

• Access to DMP processed values #1126

Piezo

• Support RTTL, RTTL+ #639

LED

• Syncdrive/inverse/isAnode for non-PWM LEDs #1398

LED.RGB

• Fade to color method #1309
• Color Correction #811

Motor

• Start Assist #995
• Encoder #995, #1481

Servos

• Bulk Servo Writes - Add ability to accumulate multiple servo positions and send write command(s) on next tick. Ideal for PCA9685 that can receive multiple values in a single i2c message (and maybe one day bulk analog writes in firmata). #1340

Thermometer

• Add tolerance for temperature changes #1137

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New Modules

Fingerprint scanner module - #845, #1353

Gripper module - #698

Camera - #420

Apex 5400 Bill Acceptor - #1317

RFID/NFC - #1108, #804, #1725

• Adafruit PN532 RFID/NFC Breakout and Shield
• RC522 Card Sensor Module

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Other Enhancements

DMX512 Protocol - This would have to be added to firmata first #1326

DAC Support - This will have to be added to firmata first #1285