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Raspberry Pi
- Raspbian Jessie is required.
- USB serial cable from Raspberry Pi to FireStep controller
- Raspberry Pi Noir camera (recommended)
- Raspberry Pi camera (optional)
The original Raspberry Pi 2 is quite trusty but pokey. If you want faster processing, go with the Raspberry Pi 2 model B. However, The Raspberry Pi is everywhere, so let's use it!
Click here to install takes under an hour. Patience is required.
With the world moving on to Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and beyond, we can still use the trusty original RPi for firenodejs. It's slow and quirky but it works. Things to note:
- nodejs is installed as nodejs and not node, so the install script will create a node symlink. There is an historical "node" program that has nothing to do with nodejs, hence all this confusion. Raspian Jessie has solved this somewhat by omitting that historical "node" program.
- serialport doesn't build on Raspberry Pi yet, so firenodejs fails over to the FireStep command line interface (cli) which is installed automatically as part of firenodejs.
The Raspberry Pi 2 is the preferred Pi, mostly for your sanity (who likes to wait?). The Pi 2 is much faster than the Pi, which is important because we want to use the Pi for computer vision processing as well.
Click here to install takes about 15 minutes.
The same Raspbian Jessie that runs on Raspberry Pi (original) works as expected on the Raspberry Pi 2.
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