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Published inJul 2017
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781786468819
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Jon Witts
Jon Witts
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Jon Witts

Jon Witts has been working within the IT industry since 2002 and specifically within Educational IT since 2004. He was introduced to Linux back in 2001 through his collaboration with two German artists who were visiting the arts organisation he was then working with. Having studied Fine Arts and Educational Technology and sought to innovate with open and accessible digital technologies within his creative practice, Jon is happiest when deconstructing technology and finding its limits. Jon has embedded within his school the use of Raspberry Pi computers, as an integral part of the delivery of the school's Computer Science curriculum as well as to run various school clubs and projects. Jon is a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and also helps to organise and run the Hull Raspberry Jam events. I would like to thank my wife, Sally and our three daughters for putting up with all the cables and compoents around the house, and not least for being so tolerant of the need to dodge the robots racing round the kitchen floor!
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Writing our Python program

To start with, we will write a simple, short piece of Python just to check that all ten of our LEDs are working, and we know which GPIO pin controls which pair of LEDs. Power on your Pi Zero and connect to it via SSH.

Testing our LEDs

To check that our LEDs are all correctly wired up and that we can control them using Python, we will write this short program to test them.

First, move into our project directory by typing this:

      cd ~/WearableTech/

Now, make a new directory for this chapter by typing this:

mkdir Chapter3

Now, move into our new directory:

cd Chapter3

Next, we create our test program by typing this:

nano testLED.py

Then, we enter the following code into Nano:

#!/usr/bin/python3...
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Published in: Jul 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786468819

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Jon Witts

Jon Witts has been working within the IT industry since 2002 and specifically within Educational IT since 2004. He was introduced to Linux back in 2001 through his collaboration with two German artists who were visiting the arts organisation he was then working with. Having studied Fine Arts and Educational Technology and sought to innovate with open and accessible digital technologies within his creative practice, Jon is happiest when deconstructing technology and finding its limits. Jon has embedded within his school the use of Raspberry Pi computers, as an integral part of the delivery of the school's Computer Science curriculum as well as to run various school clubs and projects. Jon is a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and also helps to organise and run the Hull Raspberry Jam events. I would like to thank my wife, Sally and our three daughters for putting up with all the cables and compoents around the house, and not least for being so tolerant of the need to dodge the robots racing round the kitchen floor!
Read more about Jon Witts