lava-peripherals 0.1.0

Description:

lavaperipherals 0.1.0

Lava Peripherals
Lava-peripherals is a library to the open-source framework Lava that adds support for peripheral devices such as cameras or robotic actuators.
Lava enables users to develop neuro-inspired applications and map them to neuromorphic hardware. It provides tools and abstractions to develop applications that fully exploit the principles of neural computation.
Content

Dynamic Vision Cameras

Metavision
Inivation (coming soon)


Intel RealSense cameras
Robotic actuators (to be planned)

Dependencies
Lava-peripherals currently requires Linux and does not support Windows or MacOS.
Third-party dependencies
Lava-peripherals is flexible with the dependency on the libraries for the peripheral hardware and requires only those to be installed which are used.
PropheseeCamera
The PropheseeCamera Process, requires the metavision-sdk v4.0.0 or newer to be installed.
RealSense
The RealSense Process, requires the Intel® RealSense™ SDK v2.0 and the Python wrapper pyrealsense2 to be
installed.
Python dependencies
Lava-peripherals requires Python version 3.9 or newer; for installation either pip or poetry is required.
Installation
Linux
cd $HOME
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
git clone https://github.com/lava-nc/lava-peripherals.git
cd lava-peripherals
poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
poetry install

# in order to find metavision-sdk
sed -i "s/include-system-site-packages\ =\ false/include-system-site-packages\ =\ true/g" .venv/pyvenv.cfg

source .venv/bin/activate
pytest

## See FAQ for more info: https://github.com/lava-nc/lava/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions-(FAQ)#install

More information
For more information visit http://lava-nc.org or the Lava-nc on GitHub.
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