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Raspbery Pi - libpigpio for .net

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Provides complete managed access to the popular pigpio C library.

The premise is simple: using the powerful features of C# to control the ARM peripherals of the Raspberry Pi. This library provides a comprehensive way to access the hardware of the Pi. It uses the fantastic C library pigpio. The documentation of the library can be found here.

As a programmer, the choice is yours. You can call the native methods either directly or via the comprehensive API of PiGpio.net.

Example of blinking an LED with direct native calls

Setup.GpioInitialise();
var pin = SystemGpio.Bcm18;
IO.GpioSetMode(pin, PinMode.Output);

while (true)
{
    IO.GpioWrite(pin, true);
    Thread.Sleep(500);
    IO.GpioWrite(pin, false);
    Thread.Sleep(500);
}

Example of blinking an LED with the PiGpio.net Managed API

var pin = Board.Pins[18];

while (true)
{
    pin.Value = !pin.Value;
    Thread.Sleep(500);
}

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