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Using pixy with Processing.org or other nimble IDE (Mac)

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#1

hi,

Just received my PixyCam. PixyMon works fine. Quite impressive!

I’d like to start to experiment with a project (I’m building a RC-car lap timer/counter with my son), but don’t yet want/need to run everything on an arduino. Is there an easy way to start developing with the PixyCam (via USB) directly on a mac?

I was thinking the Processing environment would be a good place to start, but I can’t find anything on the processing forums regarding pixycam or cmucam, and nothing here about the processing IDE.

Any ideas?

Just looking for a simple way to start playing with this hardware, hopefully in an environment where I ‘don’t have to say much before I say what I want to say’ and can run a short code-run-fail-code cycle for testing.

Thanks!

#2

Hello Adrien,
We don’t have Processing support, but you can try using libpixyusb with the Mac. libpixyusb is a C library and is mostly used with Linux because most of our customers want to use embedded targets like Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone, but libpixyusb should compile with little trouble on Mac.

This link describes how to compile in Linux, but I think much of it is the same for Mac:

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

Hope this helps! And let us know how it goes :slight_smile:

Edward