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Several years ago I wrote about adding analog-to-digital capabilities to the Raspberry Pi. At that time, I used an ATtinyx61 series MCU to provide ADC capabilities, communicating with the RPi via an I2C interface. In retrospect it was much more complicated than necessary. What follows is an attempt to re-do that project using an MCP3008, a 10 bit ADC that communicates on the SPI bus. MCP3008 device The MCP3008 is an 8-channel 10-bit ADC with an SPI interface^[Datasheet can be found here.