But what if you don't have one? The workshops are also designed to learn about electronics and about Python, so all is not lost. In fact, the Python techniques you will learn can be applied to a wide gamut of problems.
Still, wouldn't it be nice if you could run the code on your laptop? I decided to do something about it.
Meet Fake RPi.GPIO
It implements a setmode(), setup(), cleanup(), input(), output(), tracks 54 GPIO states and directions, broadcom and board modes, placeholders for the 4 set_*_event() functions, has minimal error handling. If there is demand for it, I'll expand it. There is no way to simulate the press of a button on the GPIOs right now.
If you need to install mercurial first:
debian based
$ sudo apt-get install mercurial
or fedora
$ sudo yum install mercurial
Under solaris, it is available under the packagemanager. On windows or mac you can get it here: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
Assuming you already have mercurial:
$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/fdion/fablocker
This will pull in all the PyHack workshops up to now. We are interested in the 2nd workshop.
You will now have a folder named fablocker/PyHack/workshop02
There is a test.py that imports RPi.GPIO. Since there is a directory named RPi and under that, a python file named GPIO.py, it will import this GPIO instead. To try it, just do python test.py (fake RPi.GPIO doesn't require sudo like the real deal). On a real Raspberry Pi, just rename the folder so it is no longer found by Python.
The subprojects for workshop #02 will be added to the repository a short time after the workshop. I'll let you know.
Updating the repository
As always, if you already cloned the fablocker repository, then you will need to:
pi@raspberrypi ~/bitbucket $cd fablocker
pi@raspberrypi ~/bitbucket/fablocker $ hg pull http://bitbucket.org/fdion/fablocker real URL is https://bitbucket.org/fdion/fablocker pulling from http://bitbucket.org/fdion/fablocker searching for changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 2 changesets with 5 changes to 5 files (run 'hg update' to get a working copy) pi@raspberrypi ~/bitbucket/fablocker $ hg update 5 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved pi@raspberrypi ~/bitbucket/fablocker $
2 comments:
I could not find the RPi.GPIO fake package in your archive !
Is it available somewhere ?
In the workshop02 directory there is a directory named RPi. In that directory there is a a file called GPIO.py. If you are using Python 3 you will need to edit a couple of the print statements as the brackets are missing.
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