Edward, you might not be aware that the Incubator is not a place to "start" new projects from scratch, but to educate communities in the Apache Way of operating as sustainable communities. We accept existing communities with existing projects...
That said; I generally agree with your "ambition" and I agree with Roman that MyNewt is probably the best home right now for this, so I suggest that "we, the interested people" head over to d...@mynewt.apache.org and see if we can carve out a small sandbox and start doing some work. If that turns out well, and IF mynewt.apache.org is not a natural home, then we could spin out of MyNewt. I know Justin is also heavily invested in the space, so should be possible to get a ball rolling. Cheers Niclas On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:40 AM, <dav...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Sounds quite interesting :) It might also be an idea to provide a home > for > > implementations of other hardware that can drive GPIO pins and can > control > > similar sensors and other devices. I'm thinking of an Arduino, or > something > > like an ESP8266. These are devices that are much simpler (and cheaper) > than > > a Raspberry Pi, but if you are just building a sensor or a simple switch > > they are often quite useful. > > > > Would that fit with a project like this as well? > > > > Cheers, > > > > David > > > > David, > > It is my understanding that what this project would produce would be device > independent. > > In Unix operating systems devices are files. For the I2C bus the device id > would /dev/i2c-0.(I do not believe this would be different on a PI vs and > Arduino). My goal is to produce Apache licensed libraries like this here: > > https://blogs.oracle.com/acaicedo/resource/RPi-HOL/GPIOTest.java > > Namely: > > final GpioController gpio = GpioFactory.getInstance(); > final GpioPinDigitalOutput led1 = > gpio.provisionDigitalOutputPin(RaspiPin.GPIO_00); > > // continuously blink the led every 1/2 second for 15 seconds > led1.blink(500, 15000); > > However, if people are open to device driver implementations (I would > assume these would be BSD drivers) I think that is an interesting > direction and I know of some FreeBSD user groups that might be > interested in getting involved. > > Thanks, > > Edward > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://polygene.apache.org <http://zest.apache.org> - New Energy for Java
