Overview

Pi Piper brings event driven programming to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins. Pi Piper works with all revisions of the Raspberry Pi, and has been tested with Ruby 1.9.3 under both Raspbian "wheezy" and Occidentalis v0.2.

To get started:

If you do not already have Ruby installed, first you'll need to:

sudo apt-get install ruby ruby1.9.1-dev

Despite one of the packages being titled "ruby1.9.1-dev", the above command will install Ruby 1.9.3 (as of January 2013) and the Ruby dev tools.

To install Pi Piper:

sudo gem install pi_piper

GPIO

The GPIO pins (or General Purpose I/O pins) are the primary "do anything" pins on the Raspberry Pi. Reading inputs from them is as simple as:

require 'pi_piper'
include PiPiper

watch :pin => 23 do
  puts "Pin changed from #{last_value} to #{value}"
end

#Or

after :pin => 23, :goes => :high do
  puts "Button pressed"
end

PiPiper.wait

Your block will be called when a change to the pin's state is detected.

Additionally you can use pins as output too:

pin = PiPiper::Pin.new(:pin => 17, :direction => :out)
pin.on
sleep 1
pin.off

SPI

Starting with version 1.2, Pi Piper offers SPI support.

PiPiper::Spi.begin do 
  puts write [0x01, 0x80, 0x00] 
end

Documentation

API documentation for Pi Piper can be found at rdoc.info.

Example projects

Looking for more examples/sample code for Pi Piper? Then check out the following example projects, complete with circuit diagrams:

• Project 1: Morse Code
• Project 2: Simple Switch
• Project 3: 2-bit counter
• Project 4: MCP3008

License

Copyright (c) 2013, Jason Whitehorn All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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Proudly developed exclusively on a Raspberry Pi