LOCOboard Software API

Goals

• Understand the concept of a programming library
• Get familiar with the principle of using the locoboard API
• Get an idea about how to use what's not in the library

Content

• Explain what a library is and how to interact with it

• include statement

• Show locoboard documentation
• Discuss how to work with the documentation
• Make an example on how to control some element (e.g., an LED)

Activities

• Interactive demo/discussion

Task 1

Write a program that shows something on the built-in LED matrix

Task 2

Complement it with some sound effects