A Simple Intel Galileo LED Control Script in Python
I had a bit of trouble finding information on blinking an LED on the Intel Galileo Gen 2 using python and wanted to share a script that blinks an LED.
This uses MRAA to perform all the real tasks.
Which does the following:
Initialize the pin
pin = mraa.Gpio(X) # where X is the pin number
Set it to output mode
pin.dir(MRAA.DIR_OUT)
Turn it on or off (0/1)
pin.write(1) # Turn on
pin.write(0) # Turn off
But it is just wrapped in a script which will do this for you.
Simple use:
root@galileo:~# ./led.py 1
Blinking LED 1
Using delay 10 and for 0 attempts
Turning LED 1 on, for 10 seconds, count 0.
root@galileo:~ ./led.py --help
usage: led.py [-h] [--count COUNT] [--delay DELAY] [--version] pinNumber
Simple LED Blinker for Galileo
positional arguments:
pinNumber Specify the pin number, i.e. 0-13
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--count COUNT Number of times to execute, default infinity
--delay DELAY Number of seconds to wait between readings, default 10
--version show program's version number and exit
Possible Wiring:
