servo_kit
Use PCA9685 PWM/Servo Controller in Elixir (by mnishiguchi)
kiwi
Pimoroni Keybow based, WiFi-enabled Macro Pad (a.k.a. poor-man's Elgato Stream Deck) (by mrusme)
| servo_kit | kiwi | |
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| 2 | 2 | |
| 6 | 59 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
servo_kit
Posts with mentions or reviews of servo_kit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-20.
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Controlling servo in Elixir/Nerves
So I decided to write one on my own, reading PCA9685 data sheet and adopting ideas from existing libraries written in various programming languages. My servo kit is working pretty well so far.
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[Elixir/Nerves] Smoothly dimming LEDs using a servo driver
Using an external servo driver board like Adafruit 16-Channel PWM/Servo HAT for Raspberry Pi, we have more flexibility with more channels. The downside was there was no library for using that servo driver; however as I studied Adafruit's official python code, it was not easy but not rocket science either. So I decided to write my own library in Elixir. It would be great if it helps other alchemists. The key thing is that board uses PCA9685 PWM controller, so the chip's data sheet is the single source of truth.
kiwi
Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Built a poor-man's Stream Deck using the Pimoroni Keybow + github.com/mrusme/kiwi firmware
You can get the Pimoroni Keybow (which is basically just a Raspberry Pi Zero W plus a hat that holds 12 MX-style switches + keycaps) for ~$60. Using Kiwi one can then make it connect to the home WiFi and talk to IFTTT and OBS Studio (via websocket). It can send every API command available in the websocket plugin and even process events, e.g. to make a key's LED lighten up when a recording is on-going!
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DEF CON Indy 0xCAFEBABE Hex Keyboard Now available for pre-order: crit-forge.com
If you happen to build something on the CM4 platform ping me, because I would definitely like to integrate that into Kiwi!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing servo_kit and kiwi you can also consider the following projects:
cubdb - Elixir embedded key/value database
raspap-webgui - Simple wireless AP setup & management for Debian-based devices
nerves_livebook - Develop on embedded devices with Livebook and Nerves
PiSugar - PiSugar is a battery module for Raspberry Pi zero / zero W / zero WH
circuits_i2c - Communicate over I2C from Elixir
pca9685.ex - Elixir library for the PCA9685 12-channel PWM driver.
obs-fully-loaded - OBS Studio, fully-loaded, for Ubuntu
nerves - Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir