CMUcam5 Pixy

Latest Developments

• Introduction and Background
• Quick Start
• Installing PixyMon on Mac
• Installing PixyMon on Windows Vista, 7, or 8
• Installing PixyMon on Windows XP
• Installing PixyMon on Linux
• Teaching Pixy an object
• Hooking up Pixy to a Microcontroller (like an Arduino)
• Hooking up Pixy to a Raspberry Pi
• Hooking up Pixy to a Beaglebone Black
• Uploading New Firmware
• Ideas on How to Mount Pixy on Your Invention Thing
• Powering Pixy

• PixyMon Overview
• Action Menu
• Configure Dialog
  • PixyMon Pane
  • Signature Tuning Pane
  • Expert Pane
  • Blocks Pane
  • Interface Pane
  • Camera Pane
  • Servo Pane
  • Pan/tilt Demo Pane
• Grab and Save a Frame
• Save/Load Pixy's Parameters
• Uploading new Firmware

• Assembling the Pan/tilt Mechanism
• Running the Pan/tilt Demo

• libpixyusb API Reference
• Using Color Codes
• Some Tips on Generating Color Signatures
• Port Pinouts
• Getting your controller to talk to Pixy
• Building libpixyusb on Linux
• Building libpixyusb as a Python module on Linux
• Building PixyMon
• Building Pixy Firmware

• Where can I buy Pixy?
• Where do I go to get help?
• What licensing does Pixy's software/firmware/hardware have?
• Where's the source code?
• Can Pixy do face tracking, face detection, or facial recognition?
• What is the maximum distance that Pixy can detect objects?
• Can I replace the lens on Pixy?
• Does Pixy track/sense laser light?
• Does Pixy track/sense IR light?

• I get the message "No Pixy devices have been detected" in PixyMon
• I don't see any video when I run PixyMon
• Pixy is detecting the wrong objects
• Pixy isn't detecting the objects I taught it
• My Arduino isn't receiving data from Pixy
• PixyMon is crashing!
• My pan/tilt is acting sort of crazy
• The image in PixyMon is out of focus