![]() ![]() Now you can go ahead and start turning lights on and off! Installing Swift Once you’ve got the operating system installed, make sure you can login, and have a working wired or wifi internet connection. You can also find an excellent installation guide there should you need help. Install the Raspberry Pi OS which can be downloaded from the official Raspberry Pi site. GPIO pins with lights attached.ĭon’t turn the Pi on yet, you’ll need to prepare an operating system image for it first… Operating System Setup When you’re done it’s going to look something like this… (an easy way to make sure you have it right is to locate the lights on the left hand row of pins as you look at the Pi with the USB ports to the bottom, then count 8 pins up and attach the lights there). Low Voltage Labs Traffic Lights.īefore powering up the Pi, attach the traffic lights so that the pins connect to the GPIO pins highlighted in red: GPIO Pin Diagram. One of these needs to be ground, the other three being actual GPIO pins used to control each of the individual LEDs. The Low Voltage Labs traffic lights connect to the Pi using four pins. Any HDMI display to show output from the Pi.Any USB keyboard to type on the Pi, you might want a mouse too.A set of traffic lights from Low Voltage Labs (the two pack is good value).If you want to install the operating system yourself, you’ll need a Mac, PC, Linux machine with an SD card reader A Micro SD card to install your operating system on (or get one with the OS pre-installed).Some sort of case is probably a good idea to protect the Pi (but you’ll need to leave the lid off to expose the GPIO pins to connect your lights to).A power supply for your Pi (Raspberry Pi 4 requires a different USB C power supply).I’m going to assume you have a Pi 2, 3 or 4 with 40 pins ![]() A Raspberry Pi (I’ll use the Pi 3 Model B here, but any model with GPIO pins will work - if you want to use the Pi Zero you’ll need to solder some headers onto it).To try this out, you will need the following (links here mostly go to Adafruit, UK customers may want to consider Pimoroni as a UK based alternative, Amazon has most if not all of this stuff too): To make this a standalone guide, there will be some re-use of content from the prior articles here. If you’re interested in my other articles that show how to write the same code in different languages, please check out the links below: Recently, I stumbled across this blog post which describes how to install Swift on the Pi so I thought I’d try it out… With the possible exception of a future ARM assembler post (steep learning curve for me there - but I do like working at such a low level!), I thought I’d run out of languages to try. In each article, I use the same example of a set of traffic light LEDs so that you can compare and contrast the different language implementations. As long time readers know, I’ve written a series of articles each describing how to get up and running with controlling the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins using different programming languages. ![]()
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