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Pixy hardware and connection needs for an overhead, fixed mount.

Pixy Hardware
#1

I would like to create a project that uses Pixy as an overhead fixed camera to track movement of objects on the floor. The camera would be about 9 feet and mounted to the ceiling.

All of the tracking would happen from a PC.

So my question goes to the components I need. It seems I would just need the Pixy camera and a USB cable from Pixy to my PC. Would folks agree with this setup? If so, can I then develop code in C on my PC to get data from the camera? It is unclear from my brief review of the solution whether I need an intermediary piece of hardware like Arduino for this to work.

#2

Hello Marc,
You can hook your Pixy to your PC over USB. We have Linux support (officially) that we’d recommend:

http://cmucam.org/projects/cmucam5/wiki/Building_the_libpixyusb_example_on_Linux

But there are some users who got a .NET implementation of libpixyusb working:

http://cmucam.org/boards/9/topics/6370?r=6486

Hope this helps!

Edward

#3

Thanks Edward. I will check it out.

Any thoughts on publishing a Windows API?

Marc

#4

Hi Marc,
We don’t get much interest in Windows because (I think) Pixy is mostly used in embedded applications (not hooked up to a PC). But I’ll this as a request :slight_smile:

Edward