Tessel coding

Like I said, I have been playing with my Tessel. Here's some code I wrote to mess with the GPIO port that sits atop the Tessel.

Here's what the GPIO connector looks like.



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The pins labels can be seen in the silkscreen: GPIO - G3, G2, and G1 from the bottom right. Power - GND and 3.3V at the bottom left.


Note in the code below that there is a special tessel module, included via node (require("tessel")). Thisallows you to interact with the GPIO on the Tessel.

Here I use the GPIO property (tessel.port['GPIO']) to access G1, G2 and G3.

(function(){
 "use strict";


 var tessel = require("tessel");
 var gpio = tessel.port['GPIO'];


 var Button = require("../tessel/button");
 var Led = require("../tessel/led");


 var led = Led.create(gpio.pin['G2']);
 var flasher = Led.createFlasher(led);

 var leftBtn = Button.create(gpio.pin['G1'], ["down", "up"]);
 var rightBtn = Button.create(gpio.pin['G3'], ["up", "down"]);

 leftBtn.onChange = function(evt){
  console.log("left button: ", evt.detail);
  if ("down" === evt.detail) {
   console.log("Do something with left button...");
  }
 };

 leftBtn.listen();


 rightBtn.onChange = function(evt){
  console.log("right button: ", evt.detail);
  if ("down" === evt.detail){
   flasher.fast();
  }
  else {
   flasher.slow();
  }
 };

 rightBtn.listen();


})();

I built a daughter board to plug into the GPIO connector. The board contains two buttons, one of the buttons has an LED built into it.





Here are the two other modules I that this one includes, just for reference. They are actually the ones that do all the real work.

• button.js
  
• led.js
  

Look at all that beautiful Javascript, being used to control a microcontroller. All is well with the world! Of course, I'm not sure how long the code will execute before it generates some kind of memory fault!