RedBoard Artemis Nano + Qwiic Motor Driver; examples fail to compile

Development Boards Artemis
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Hi.

I have a project that was using a RedBoard (328P/UNO style) without a problem, and now I’m building its sister project using a RedBoard Artemis, and running into issues with the SparkFun Qwiic Motor Driver when trying to compile Arduino code for it.

Using Arduino IDE 2.1.0, I open up the example sketch “MotorTest.ino” from the Serial Controlled Motor Driver library (v1.04), choose the RedBoard Artemis Nano (I’ve got v2.2.1 of SparkFun Apollo3 Boards installed). When I hit compile I get the following errors, seemingly related to SPI (which I’m not using, I’m using the example sketch as is, in I2C mode)…

/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Serial_Controlled_Motor_Driver/src/SCMD.cpp: In member function 'uint8_t SCMD::begin()':
/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Serial_Controlled_Motor_Driver/src/SCMD.cpp:106:7: error: 'class arduino::MbedSPI' has no member named 'setClockDivider'
   SPI.setClockDivider(SPI_CLOCK_DIV32);
       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Serial_Controlled_Motor_Driver/src/SCMD.cpp:106:23: error: 'SPI_CLOCK_DIV32' was not declared in this scope
   SPI.setClockDivider(SPI_CLOCK_DIV32);
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Serial_Controlled_Motor_Driver/src/SCMD.cpp:108:7: error: 'class arduino::MbedSPI' has no member named 'setBitOrder'
   SPI.setBitOrder(MSBFIRST);
       ^~~~~~~~~~~
/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Serial_Controlled_Motor_Driver/src/SCMD.cpp:111:7: error: 'class arduino::MbedSPI' has no member named 'setDataMode'
   SPI.setDataMode(SPI_MODE0);
       ^~~~~~~~~~~

exit status 1

Compilation error: exit status 1

If I change the board target to the old SparkFun Redboard, it compiles without a problem.

If been digging for information for a few hours now, but not coming up with anything useful. Any ideas?

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The way SPI is initialized is the “old” way. It is not advised anymore in the modern SPI libraries for the many different boards. I have tried to transform the “old” way to the new style for the Apollo3, but can not test it as I do not have a motor to test. Try the attached and let us know the outcome.

SparkFun_Serial_Controlled_Motor_Driver_Arduino_Library-master.zip (33.5 KB)