A simple interface to everyday GPIO components used with Raspberry Pi.

Created by Ben Nuttall of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Dave Jones, and other contributors.

The latest release is 1.0 released on 16th November 2015.

Component interfaces are provided to allow a frictionless way to get started with physical computing:

from gpiozero import LED
from time import sleep

led = LED(2)

while True:
    led.on()
    sleep(1)
    led.off()
    sleep(1)

With very little code, you can quickly get going connecting your components together:

from gpiozero import LED, Button
from signal import pause

led = LED(2)
button = Button(3)

button.when_pressed = led.on
button.when_released = led.off

pause()

The library includes interfaces to many simple everyday components, as well as some more complex things like sensors, analogue-to-digital converters, full colour LEDs, robotics kits and more.

First, update your repositories list:

sudo apt-get update

Then install the package of your choice. Both Python 3 and Python 2 are supported. Python 3 is recommended:

sudo apt-get install python3-gpiozero

or:

sudo apt-get install python-gpiozero

Comprehensive documentation is available at pythonhosted.org/gpiozero.

This project is being developed on GitHub. Join in:

• Provide suggestions, report bugs and ask questions as Issues
• Provide examples we can use as recipes
• Contribute to the code

Alternatively, email suggestions and feedback to ben@raspberrypi.org or add to the Google Doc.

• Ben Nuttall (project maintainer)
• Dave Jones
• Martin O'Hanlon