Why is it awesome?

The Adafruit WebIDE in combination with the Occidentalis operating system enables development in the Python language on a Raspberry Pi using just a web browser. It also enables access to sample projects developed by Adafruit via Bitbucket, a source control tool. (If you are not familiar with source control tools such as Bitbucket, Git, and so on, the examples in this project are a great way to get started!) The Adafruit WebIDE is a tool developed for hobbyists and comes with examples for techniques such as pulse-width modulation (used in lighting system control) and I2C communication, and also provides examples for controlling products from Adafruit.

Pulse-width modulation is a technique used widely in motor control, lighting systems, and so on. It is a technique where the average voltage applied to a device is varied by changing the width of the pulse. There are several tutorials on pulse-width modulation (https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pulse-width-modulation) available all over the Web.

I2C communication (https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/i2c) is a form of serial communication interface used to connect multiple slave devices (usually sensors) with a master device (Raspberry Pi or a microcontroller) through a common interface.

Your Hotshot objectives

In this project, we will discuss the following features:

Mission checklist

In order to get started, the first step is to install the Occidentalis distro, which is a derivative of the Raspbian operating system.

The things required to get started are as follows: