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Raspberry Pi
- Raspbian Jessie (required)
- Ethernet connection to your Pi (required)
- USB serial cable from Raspberry Pi to FireStep controller (required)
- Raspberry Pi Noir camera (recommended)
- Raspberry Pi camera (optional)
The original Raspberry Pi 2 is solid and trusty. 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 firenodejs in about an hour
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 firenodejs in about 15 minutes
The same Raspbian Jessie that runs on Raspberry Pi (original) works as expected on the Raspberry Pi 2.
- nodejs will be installed as node, which is its normal name
- serialport will be used instead of the FireStep client
- [Raspberry-Pi Camera](kAQ Raspberry Pi Camera)