Don’t know if someone already asked this question or not or if it is even possible (tried to find the original code of pixy, but i just found .hex file).
Is it possible to upload the code of pixy into a raspberry pi or a beaglebone black or any other arm based mini computer? This boards have the advantage of having a faster processor clock and more ram than pixy. It would be incredible to have a pixy that runs faster and has more flash, so more things could be done.
Grateful
Hi,
Unfortunately Pixy’s code is targeted towards the specific dual core ARM processor used on the board. Even if the code was generic to all ARM processors it still wouldn’t run since it isn’t designed to run on top of an operating system like Linux. It would be possible to run those boards without Linux, but then we’d have to completely refactor the firmware architecture to work on the different processors.
Sorry, this just isn’t a possibility right now. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Scott
EDIT: I should mention, the full source code is “here”:https://github.com/charmedlabs/pixy if you’d like to look at it.
First of all grateful for your reply.
Of course it would be used without the operating system but since the code can not be used i will take a look to it, to see if I can convert or do something. Just ask this question because the processors available on this boards are cheap (5$ for an allwinner) and have lots of great features for a image processing unite like pixy (powerful processor and lots of ram - not in chip)