Organiq on Tessel

Interact with your Tessel microcontroller from the web.

Installation

npm install -g organiq      # application SDK, CLI, examples
npm install organiq-tessel  # Tessel-specific lib deployed to device

Why Organiq on Tessel?

Writing apps that interact with the real world is surprisingly easy and fun with Tessel and its assorted modules. Because it ships with Wifi, Tessel can also interface with the web in a fairly straightforward manner. But allowing an external application to do something like query the current temperature with the climate module, or take a picture with the camera module, is not nearly as simple and elegant as most of the other things you do on Tessel.

Organiq makes it easy for applications to interact with Tessel-based devices over the web. It strives for a nearly-invisible interface that lets you focus on your device and application functionality without worrying about the network plumbing.

Show Me Some Code

Here's a Tessel program that uses Organiq to allow the device LED to be toggled from the web:

var tessel = require('tessel');
var organiq = require('organiq-tessel');
organiq.registerDevice('Blinker', {
    toggleLed: function() { tessel.led[0].toggle(); }
});

And here's a Node.js app that uses that method to blink the LED on and off once a second:

var organiq = require('organiq');
function startBlinking(device) {
    setInterval(function() { device.toggleLed(); }, 500); 
}
organiq.getDevice('Blinker').then(startBlinking);

The methods and properties you expose from your device can do whatever you want. You might activate a servo motor, or return the current humidity, or execute any other code.

See Hello, Organiq! to walk through building this 'Blinker' example step-by-step.

Contribute

Organiq on Tessel is part of the Organiq SDK for JavaScript, available on GitHub.