Smart Internet of Things Projects

Building your own IoT machine vision

We already know Pixy CMUcam5 as a camera module. In this section, we try to use this module in our IoT project.

The following is a list of the required modules:

• Pixy CMUcam5 Sensor, http://www.seeedstudio.com/item_detail.html?p_id=2048
• Pan/Tilt for Pixy, http://www.seeedstudio.com/item_detail.html?p_id=2048

You also can obtain these modules on other online stores.

Deploying Pixy CMUcam5 on Raspberry Pi

In order to use Pixy CMUcam5, you should install the required libraries and applications. Firstly, you can open the terminal on Raspberry Pi and type these commands:

$ sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev
$ sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools
$ sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake qt4-default
$ sudo apt-get install g++