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At long last, we have covered enough background information to explain how to add device drivers to Gadgeteer. In this chapter, we will examine a very simple device that has an on state and an off state. The general flow of this chapter will model the process that driver programmers would normally follow when writing a new driver from scratch.
As discussed in the section called “Device Types”, there are a set of abstract device types supported by Gadgeteer. Based on its capabilities, a new device will fall into at least one of the device type categories. It is perfectly valid for a single device to provide more than one type of input. For example, an Immersion Tech IBox returns both analog and digital data. Determining the device type for a new piece of hardware should be the easiest part of the driver authoring process.