nikivanov
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4 years ago Hey, thanks for the PR! This is good work - follows the implementation pattern exactly. You'd need to adapt it a bit to the new code base of the new Watney, though, but that shouldn't give you trouble.
Before we merge it in, I think it needs more description, or a "how to". This code, at the end of the day, just turns a GPIO pin high or low. What LED strip did you use? How did you hook it up? How did you mount it onto the rover?
These are the changes that I made to allow turning on and off some infrared headlights on Pin 26 of the Pi Zero. I just used a simple transistor to switch them because the lights consume quite a bit of current.
Pressing L toggles the lights on and off, and they automatically turn off on boot.
Feel free to change anything you want, my implementation here might not be the best.