{"id":13564,"date":"2015-10-15T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T10:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13564"},"modified":"2015-10-15T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T09:27:09","slug":"gpio-zero-test-drive-throwing-light-onto-the-new-library-for-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13564","title":{"rendered":"GPIO Zero test drive &#8211; throwing light onto the new library for the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/raspi.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GPIOZero-PIR-lamp_bb-1024x697.png?resize=560%2C381\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Eames from <a href=\"http:\/\/raspi.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">RasPi.TV<\/a>\u00a0has been putting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13491\" target=\"_blank\">GPIO Zero<\/a> through it&#8217;s paces by creating an automatic security light which senses a) when it&#8217;s dark and b) when movement is detected and then triggers a light to come on. He&#8217;s used a combination of components, including relays, to create the circuit and then put together a GPIO Zero-powered script. <a href=\"http:\/\/raspi.tv\/2015\/gpio-zero-test-drive-making-light-of-security\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Eames from RasPi.TV\u00a0has been putting GPIO Zero through it&#8217;s paces by creating an automatic security light which senses a) when it&#8217;s dark and b) when movement is detected and then triggers a light to come on. He&#8217;s used a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13564\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,39,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-programming","category-sensors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GPIO Zero test drive - throwing light onto the new library for the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13564\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GPIO Zero test drive - throwing light onto the new library for the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alex Eames from RasPi.TV\u00a0has been putting GPIO Zero through it&#8217;s paces by creating an automatic security light which senses a) when it&#8217;s dark and b) when movement is detected and then triggers a light to come on. 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