carica/chip

Physical computing for PHP

Carica Chip

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License: The MIT License, _(*2)

Copyright: 2013-2018 Thomas Weinert thomas@weinert.info, _(*3)

Carica Chip provides abstraction for hardware access. It implements classes for physical devices connected to an Arduino (or compatible microcontroller) running Firmata., _(*4)

It's a learning project not a product. Use it at your own risk., _(*5)

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Basics

The repository provides an (hopefully growing) number of classes representing devices like an led, and potentiometer and so on., _(*7)

It is inspired by the Johnny Five project., _(*8)

Dependencies

Carica Chip uses Carica Io a non blocking I/O library for PHP. At least PHP 7.1 is needed. Carica Io defines several intefaces for hardware devices (Pin, ShiftOut, I2C). An implementation of these interfaces is required for Carica Chip., _(*9)

Currently here is only one implementation - Carica Firmata. This is a Firmata client implentation for PHP., _(*10)

On Windows, Serproxy should be used to map serial ports to tcp., _(*11)

Installation

Carica Chip is avaiable on Packagist. Use Composer to add it as an dependency into your own projects., _(*12)

You can use the skeleton project, too:, _(*13)

$ composer create-project carica/chip-skeleton path --stability=dev

Examples

Examples using Carica Firmata can be found in a separate repository., _(*14)