Developing without the PI for the PI with blinkt

pimoroni / blinkt

Python Library for Blinkt; 8 APA102 LEDs for your Raspberry Pi

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/blinkt

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Developing without the PI for the PI with blinkt #103

Open joshy opened 10 months ago

joshy commented 10 months ago

I couldn't find an answer to the following question. I wanted to develop in python for the pi zero with blinkt on my local computer (mac m1) and then ship the code to the pi. However I can't install blinkt because RPi.GPIO can't be installed. Is this setup somehow supported?

Thanks for your time and help! Cheers Joshy

druck13 commented 10 months ago

Have a look at my Linux terminal simulation which allows you to develop blink patterns without a Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/pimoroni/blinkt/pull/98

I thought it might be useful in situations like yours, but Gadgetoid left the merge request waiting for 2.5 years before choosing to deny it because it might clash with something that still hasn't been done. Very disheartening.

joshy commented 10 months ago

@druck13 Thanks a lot for the fake_blink! It helped me a lot.