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gpiozero
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A simple interface to everyday GPIO components used with Raspberry Pi
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*A work in progress*
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Motivation
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The "hello world" program in Java is at least 5 lines long, and contains 11
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jargon words which students are taught to ignore.
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The "hello world" program in Python is one simple line. However, the "hello
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world" of physical computing in Python (flashing an LED) is similar to the Java
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program: 6 lines of code to flash an LED.
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Young children and beginners shouldn't need to sit and copy out several lines
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of text they're told to ignore. They should be able to read their code and
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understand what it means.
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Install
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Install with pip::
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sudo pip install gpiozero
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sudo pip-3.2 install gpiozero
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Usage
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Example usage for flashing an LED::
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from gpiozero import LED
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from time import sleep
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led = LED(2)
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while True:
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led.on()
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sleep(1)
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led.off()
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sleep(1)
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Development
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This project is being developed on `GitHub`_. Join in:
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* Provide suggestions
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* Help design the `API`_
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* Contribute to the code
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Alternatively, email suggestions and feedback to ben@raspberrypi.org
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.. _`GitHub`: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/python-gpiozero
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.. _`API`: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/python-gpiozero/issues/7
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