Go + hardware

This repo is a directory of tools, packages and tutorials to let you introduce Go in your hardware projects.

Why Go?

Great tooling that comes with a strong cross compilation story.
Builtin concurrency primitives in Go is making it easier to write concurrent programs.
Go runs on ARM boards. ARM boards are getting cheaper, making it easier for production designs to include them. Higher-level languages have more opportunities than ever on hardware projects.
Go is garbage collected but you can still use it to write non-realtime or networked controllers. There are plenty of Go users who program their experimental drone flight control software in Go, it's OK for prototyping.
Go's network stack is maintained well. Standard library might be missing higher level implementations for P2P protocols, but the community works to fill that gap.
Writing C bindings in Go is a pleasure with cgo.

gobot - High level Go package with a variety of platform APIs to talk to popular drivers such as GPIO on Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Leap Motion or Pebble.
embd - Embedded programming framework for Go.
godrone - High level Parrot AR Drone 2.0 framework written in Go.
launchpad - High level controller library for Novation Launchpad.
littlebits - littleBits controller for Go. It requires USB I/O module.
hwio - hardware library for ARM boards such as Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone, loosely based on Arduino.

mdns - mDNS server and client implementation in Go. Multicast DNS can be used to discover services and message on the local network without the use of an authoritative DNS server.
gatt - Provides a Bluetooth Low Energy GATT implementation.

Contributions are welcome, please fork and open a PR if you see a missing package, tutorial, etc.