Bridge the physical world: Kotlin/Native on Raspberry Pi

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A hand robot that plays rock paper scissors runs on a Raspberry Pi compiled from Kotlin/Native, with working LED blink, button callbacks and I2C servo control; GPIO use relies on C interop .def files and staticCFunction callbacks, servos use a PCA9685 I2C driver with native memory scopes for pointer arguments, and the camera is driven by calling raspistill. Cross‑compilation and toolchain quirks cause friction and TensorFlow builds fail on 32‑bit Raspbian, so ML inference remains unresolved while hardware control works.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:51The machinery
3. 2:10The project
4. 2:24Data collection tool
5. 3:41Driver
6. 4:07Robota
7. 4:19Final result
8. 4:35Google stops the project
9. 4:45Why KotlinNative
10. 5:17What is KotlinNative
11. 5:37Compiler
12. 6:11Intermediate representation
13. 6:30Terminology
14. 6:56Pi architectures
15. 7:27Raspberry Pi
16. 7:42Coding Native Documentation
17. 8:08Crosscompilation
18. 8:57C Interoperability
19. 9:40My setup
20. 9:51GPIO
21. 10:16Starting the project
22. 11:00hello calling native
23. 11:19compile
24. 11:38different libraries
25. 12:04making it work
26. 12:28creating a def file
27. 13:19GPIO library
28. 13:52Final code
29. 14:27Linking libraries
30. 15:21Binary executable
31. 15:34Crossplatform coupling
32. 15:55English file
33. 16:13Header file
34. 16:37SCP
35. 16:49Advanced
36. 17:21Callback
37. 18:00Reading C
38. 18:43Static C function
39. 19:00Code
40. 19:33Server motors
41. 20:02SDA1 CL
42. 20:15Drivers
43. 20:36PWM
44. 21:40C library
45. 22:20initialize C library
46. 22:51code encoding
47. 23:21C values ref
48. 24:07Documentation is not enough
49. 24:18Native Placement
50. 24:29Memory Allocation
51. 24:59Native on Raspberry Pi
52. 25:40Robot starts to work
53. 26:04Camera module
54. 26:43POSIX binding
55. 26:55recipesteel
56. 27:29tensorflow
57. 29:14passdown
58. 29:35long wait
59. 30:01basic demo
60. 30:14image capture
61. 30:44conclusion
62. 32:06Native
63. 32:32Repository
64. 33:14Debugging

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