Raspberry Pi Hardware Control in Rust and Python

Tested on Raspberry Pi 3 running on Raspberry Pi OS (32 bit).

How to wire

Important notes:

• Make sure you have the correct amperage for the 5V power supply for your number of LEDs.
• The ground of the LEDs must be connected to a ground pin on the microcontroller.
• Add a high capacitor between the LEDs power supply and the LEDs.
• Add about a 400 ohms resistor for the data line from the microcontroller to the LEDs.

How to use

• Connect to the bluetooth dongle by using sudo bluetoothctl from the Raspberry Pi. Once you have established a connection, open an RFCOMM port with sudo rfcomm connect hci0 hc05_addr.
• Start the Rust web server with ROCKET_ENV=staging cargo run --release in the WebServer/ folder.
• Start the Python controller with python3 demo_controller_app.py in the ScriptControl/ folder.
• Open a browser and enter the RPi_IP:8000 as the URL.