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Description

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[HB GPIO] GPIO, or General-Purpose Input/Output is a mechanism that allows a computing board to provide electrical contacts for signalling to a wide range of external devices. These pins allow commerical and hobbyist projects to do things like communicate with a “breakout board”, or individual physical modules – like a motor.

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Please have a look at WiringX, which also supports the Hummingboard:

http://wiringx.org/

Manual

  • The external GPIOs are available under the /sys/class/gpio folder in Linux.

  • To control on the GPIO pins you need to calculate the GPIO number XX (*) and run the commands below:

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