Phidgets
Notes for Phidgets stuff (ADC, motor controllers, lcds, rfids, etc)
- Get files from;
o Installation instructions here - http://www.phidgets.com/docs/OS_-_Linux
o Source library - http://www.phidgets.com/downloads/libraries/libphidget.tar.gz
o C Examples - http://www.phidgets.com/downloads/examples/phidget21-c-examples.tar.gz
o There's also a Matlab toolkit, but doesn't provide support for all Phidgets things
- Trouble installing;
o Need to install libusb-1.0.0 and libusb-1.0.0-dev (or libusb-devel), problem in make process when this wasn't detected. After faffing, I got it to work when I uninstalled and reinstalled gcc (non-64bit).
- Trouble running;
o Need to change udev rules - http://www.phidgets.com/docs/OS_-_Linux#Setting_udev_Rules - copy ../libphidget/udev to /etc/udev/rules.d/