Controlling the PiGlow with GPIO, buttons and Python

3,836 views · Published 6 September 2013 · 4:12 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: Alex Eames · 2013 · Science & Technology

Watch on YouTube

Using buttons to control the PiGlow with Python on the Raspberry Pi. Video goes with blog here http://raspi.tv/?p=4926 I wanted to be able to GPIO control my PiGlow, but the PiGlow covers all the ports. There are ways round that though, as you'll see.

More from this channel

• 1:08 Gertboard Software in Python 2.7 - buttons test program

  Alex Eames

  1,458 views · 4 November 2012

• 10:10 The self-resetting Raspberry Pi

  Alex Eames

  4,944 views · 21 December 2012

• 3:54 Cyntech Paddle Board Review GPIO Breakout Board for the Raspberry Pi

  Alex Eames

  2,970 views · 28 April 2013

• 0:33 A quick and dirty tryout of the new Raspberry Pi Camera

  Alex Eames

  4,021 views · 15 May 2013

• 4:36 Automated testing of the Raspberry Pi Camera EV compensation settings

  Alex Eames

  3,170 views · 15 June 2013

• 3:00 The Plinth

  Alex Eames

  2,440 views · 28 March 2014

• 4:42 protocam

  Alex Eames

  2,397 views · 29 September 2014

• 3:30 RasPiO Duino simple examples

  Alex Eames

  3,115 views · 25 February 2015