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Our little New-Year gift for Pascal developers

Thursday, December 31, 2015

On this last day of the year, we'd like to introduce a first version of a little New Year's gift for you, Pascal developers. If you are, like us, excited about Internet of Things, embedded software development, DIY projects, controlling electronics from your code, ... we have for you a first version of our new free & open-source bundle of hardware access components for Raspberry Pi. You can download full source code from here

This is a first small step into making interfacing with all kinds of external electronic devices like sensors, displays, step motor, input devices etc... as easy as setting a few properties or calling a few methods of a class. If you would for example like to measure some analog voltage and display the result on a small LCD display, this becomes as simple as:

var
  v: integer;
  s: string;
begin
TMSLCLAdaDispl16x2.Init;
v := TMSLCLAdaADC12B.ReadChannel(0);
s := 'Value: ' + IntToStr(v) + 'V';
TMSLCLAdaDispl16x2.DrawText(s);
end;

At this moment we have components for following Raspberry Pi breakouts and more are coming...

Adafruit 4 digit 7 segment display