gpiozero
A simple interface to everyday GPIO components used with Raspberry Pi.
Created by Ben Nuttall of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Dave Jones, and other contributors.
Latest release
The latest release is 1.0 released on 16th November 2015.
About
Component interfaces are provided to allow a frictionless way to get started with physical computing:
from gpiozero import LED from time import sleep led = LED(2) while True: led.on() sleep(1) led.off() sleep(1)
With very little code, you can quickly get going connecting your components together:
from gpiozero import LED, Button from signal import pause led = LED(2) button = Button(3) button.when_pressed = led.on button.when_released = led.off pause()
The library includes interfaces to many simple everyday components, as well as some more complex things like sensors, analogue-to-digital converters, full colour LEDs, robotics kits and more.
Install
First, update your repositories list:
sudo apt-get update
Then install the package of your choice. Both Python 3 and Python 2 are supported. Python 3 is recommended:
sudo apt-get install python3-gpiozero
or:
sudo apt-get install python-gpiozero
Documentation
Comprehensive documentation is available at pythonhosted.org/gpiozero.
Development
This project is being developed on GitHub. Join in:
- Provide suggestions, report bugs and ask questions as Issues
- Provide examples we can use as recipes
- Contribute to the code
Alternatively, email suggestions and feedback to ben@raspberrypi.org or add to the Google Doc.
Contributors
- Ben Nuttall (project maintainer)
- Dave Jones
- Martin O'Hanlon