Now that the new Raspberry Pi has come out with its 4 cores and 1GB of RAM - running Snap! on it is much more feasible.

Even better, there are enough resources to run a Python background program and let it control the GPIO pins as well

https://vine.co/v/O2wdWtXA9DJ

Simon

Awesome! Now I just need to get my hands on an rPi 2.