I think the orange pi zero would be a perfect candidate for use with the Johnny-Five framework (http://johnny-five.io/).
I would like to develop an IO-Plugin (https://github.com/rwaldron/io-plugins) for that framework. Once completed all the projects based on johnny-five could be ported to the orange-pi.
How it goes with the project? Have you start anything yet? I would like to help (any help) because I'd love to work with johnny-five on Orange pi. If you already start why don't you put something on github so any of us could contribute.