The following procedure will walk you through building PixyMon for Linux. This procedure assumes the following:

• Your system has Linux Mint installed
• Pixy firmware has been updated to 1.0.2
• Your system is connected to the internet

The Mint distribution of Linux can be downloaded here: http://www.linuxmint.com

Instructions for updating the Pixy firmware are here: Uploading New Firmware

Although this procedure uses Linux Mint, it should work with any Linux distribution that uses the Debian package manager (e.g. Ubuntu).

Start the terminal application:

In the terminal window type:

sudo apt-get install git

In the terminal window type:

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev

In the terminal window type:

sudo apt-get install qt5-default

sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake

sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev-tools

In the terminal window type:

sudo apt-get install g++

In the terminal window type:

git clone https://github.com/charmedlabs/pixy2.git

Change directory to the pixy build tools folder and run the build script.

In the terminal window type:

cd pixy2/scripts
./build_pixymon_src.sh

The script will probably take a few minutes to complete. Perhaps this is a good time to make a cup of tea?

In order to communicate with Pixy over USB as a non-root user you must set permissions for Pixy.

To do this copy the 'pixy.rules' file to '/etc/udev/rules.d'

In the terminal window type:

cd ../src/host/linux/
sudo cp pixy.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

In the terminal window type:

cd ../../../build/pixymon/bin/

In the terminal window type:

./PixyMon

What's next? Let's teach Pixy an object!