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libpixyusb now available

libpixyusb Version 0.1 is now available.

Features:

  • Establishes a connection with Pixy over a USB port and reads Pixy ‘block’ data elements.
  • Includes the example application: hello_pixy

Tested Platforms:

Linux Mint 16 ‘Cinnamon’

Raspberry Pi

libpixy USB has been tested in Linux and should be relatively straightforward to port to other platforms that have the following libraries installed. (see below)

Prerequisites:

  • libusb 1.0
  • Boost 1.55.0 or a compiler with C++11 standard library support.

Building libpixyusb on the Raspberry Pi:

Steps for building libpixyusb on the Raspberry Pi can be found here:
http://cmucam.org/projects/cmucam5/wiki/Hooking_up_Pixy_to_a_Raspberry_Pi