Phidgets

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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/