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Treehopper Documentation
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This is the main documentation set for Treehopper — here, we focus on overall concepts you'll need to understand how to get going. We'll also dive deep into hardware functionality, performance considerations, and anything else that is language-agnostic.
If you're looking for API references for a particular language, here are the links:
Treehopper is a USB peripheral for your computer, smartphone, or tablet that enables software you write to interface with physical hardware.
Most computers and devices are really good at interfacing with high-speed devices like monitors, cameras, VR headsets, audio interfaces, and video capture cards. But they're really bad at interfacing with simple peripherals, like buttons, LEDs, low-speed sensors, and motors.
Treehopper is an interface board that endows your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other devices with the same peripherals that microcontrollers have.
Treehopper is a USB 2.0 Full Speed device with 20 pins — each of which can be used as an analog input, digital input, or digital output. Many of these pins also have dedicated peripheral functions for SPI, I2C, UART, and PWM.
Treehopper is a USB accessory, not a microcontroller development board. You must
Treehopper's SDK has native APIs for C#, Python, Java, and C++. Additionally, many other environments, like MATLAB, can call into Treehopper DLLs and managed assemblies.
Treehopper's SDK and firmware are open source. Visit our GitHub repo for more information about contributing.
For large projects where Treehopper plays a minor role, you've probably got the language and environment already selected; however, if the focal point of the app is the Treehopper board, you may want to consult our Supported Languages page to determine which platform is best for your needs.
You can get up and running quickly without having to write any software.
Just grab the Treehopper App from the Downloads page and install it on your device.
We have getting started guides for each SDK language: