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Detect UUT LED blink rate

Pixy Software
#1

Hello,

We have an application where we would like to detect the blink rate of a LED on a UUT.

Would calculating the blink rate be easily implementable in device firmware as opposed to doing it on the host side?

In general, is it relatively easy to make changes to the baseline device firmware? What programming tools would be required? We may have other requirements where implementing in firmware may make more sense due to performance constraints on host side.

Thanks,

#2

Hey Jim,

there’s nothing built into Pixy firmware at the moment that would calculate blink rate. I think you could pretty easily do this in Arduino code (for example).

Firmware changes require a solid knowledge of C programming, and a toolchain to compile. I believe the Keil toolchain is required. For more info, see our Firmware SDK group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!forum/pixy_firmware_sdk

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Jesse