We’re pleased to announce that you can now control Phidgets using Ruby. Phidgets are low-cost USB building blocks, that make it easy to interact with the real world programmatically. They provide a wide range of sensors (distance, force, touch, motion, environmental, input, current), motors (servos, steppers, DC motors), RFID readers, displays and other goodies.
We worked with the great team over at Phidgets to add Ruby to their supported languages. You can check out the Getting Started with Phidgets in Ruby guide, or check out phidgets-ffi on github.

