CMUcam3 Linux Quick Start Guide#

This is for advanced users. For more detailed instructions see Documentație.

  • Make sure you already have the following installed

    • Make

    • Subversion

    • Openssh

  • Download from our Descărcări page:

    • Linux ARM-gcc compiler

    • Linux LPC-ISP Installer

  • Not as root, install the files into a subdirectory of your home directory, and add to your local PATH

  • Download cc3 source

    • Get a zip of the latest stable snapshot from our Descărcări page

    • or checkout a fresh copy from svn by typing:

      svn co https://cc3.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cc3/trunk cc3

  • Install gcc

    • bunzip2 arm-200xqx-xx-arm-none-eabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2

    • tar xvf arm-200xqx-xx-arm-none-eabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar

    • Add: /arm-200xqx/bin directory to your path

  • Install LPC-ISP

    • unzip lpc21isp_unix.zip

    • cd lpc21isp_unix

    • make

    • Add the directory with lpc21isp to your path

  • Open up a new shell

    • Go to cc3

    • Type Make

  • Startup in programming mode

    • Hold in push button while turning on power to startup in programming mode

  • Load compiled hex file

    • cd to cc3/projects/cmucam2/

    • Flash board with cmucam2_lpc2106-cmucam3.hex

    • Assuming your COM port is /dev/ttyS0 type:

      ./lpc21isp cmucam2_lpc2106-cmucam3.hex /dev/ttyS0 115200 14746

  • Open up a terminal program

    • Power Cycle Board

    • A Green Power LED should turn on

    • If the code is running correctly, the red LED will turn off and the blue and yellow LEDs will dimly illuminate

    • Make sure it prints a startup message

  • Open Minicom or some other terminal program

    • Configure Minicom as described on our Minicom page.

    • Restart the board and wait 5 seconds

    • You should see the following:

      CMUcam2 v1.00 c6
:

    • Try typing „gv” followed by enter to see if two-way serial communication is working