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For this example, we're going to be connecting to an Arduino, and when a putton on it's pressed, an LED will be toggled.

Before you start this example, make sure you've got the cylon-firmata module installed.

We'll get started by importing the Cylon module:

var Cylon = require('cylon');

Now that we have Cylon imported, let's start making our robot:

Cylon.robot({

Our robot will have a connection to an Arduino, and communicate with it via the Firmata protocol:

  connections: {
    arduino: { adaptor: 'firmata', port: '/dev/ttyACM0' }
  },

This time, our robot will have two devices, an LED and a button:

  devices: {
    led: { driver: 'led', pin: 13 },
    button: { driver: 'button', pin: 2 }
  },

Our robot has very simple work, it will just toggle the LED whenever the button sends the 'push' event:

  work: function(my) {
    my.button.on('push', my.led.toggle);
  }

And with all that done, we can start our robot:

}).start();

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