Pi stuff and Reassembly
This is Part III, Part II is here.The Pi and what you can do with it is a deeeeep subject. I'll just stick to the highlights. Turning on/off GPIO pins, high level Wifi and sundry, and the script.
GPIO Control
Wiring Pi by Gordon @drogon, is an excellent project for low level Pi IO control. Actually his whole site is just pure awesomeness if you have the time to read. Anyway, I followed the instructions on downloading and installing Wiring Pi on my Pi. I've heard rumors this is included in the base distro now, but you might want to check your version of the distro to be sure.With the wiring pi package there is a binary, the gpio util, that allows you to issue command line commands to see the state of the pins and turn them high/low.
