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Control Hardware Components in Laravel with Pinout

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Pinout is a Laravel package that bridges the gap between web applications and hardware, enabling developers to control hardware components directly from their Laravel projects. With Pinout, you can interact with GPIO pins, control displays, and more, all within Laravel:

use \DanJohnson95\Pinout\Facades\PinService;

// GPIO pin number
$pin = PinService::pin(13);
$pin->isOn(); // Whether the pin is "on" (high)
$pin->isOff(); // Whether the pin is "off" (low)
$pin->turnOn(); // Set the pin to "on"
$pin->turnOff(); // Set the pin to "off"
$pin->makeInput(); // Set the pin to input mode
$pin->makeOutput(); // Set the pin to output mode

// Get multiple pins
$pins = PinService::pins(13, 19, 26);
$pins->turnOn(); // Turn all pins off in the collection
$pins->turnOff();
// ...

Main Features

  • GPIO Pin Control – Retrieve and set the state of any GPIO pin, allowing for operations ranging from simple LED toggling to robotic controls.
  • Display Integration – Utilize included drivers to:
    • Display digits on a 7 segment display
    • Display anything on a 16x2 LCD display
  • Build projects like:
    • Smart plug relay
    • Alarm clock
    • Weather station
    • Followers counter
    • And more...
  • Hardware Compatibility – Supports a wide range of Raspberry Pi models
  • Laravel PinService Facade - interact with hardware via a Laravel service and Artisan commands

You can get started with this package by checking out the official documentation. The source code is available on GitHub at danjohnson95/pinout, and you can install the package into your Laravel project via Composer:

composer require danjohnson95/pinout
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