ExpEYES

For quick installation select any of the following depending on your computer and operating system.

On Debian/Ubuntu:

• On Ubuntu 18.04 and above, Download the Deb
• Open a command terminal
• cd Downloads ( The browser generally puts the file there)
• sudo apt install ./eyes17_5.0+pyqt5-4_all.deb (the downloaded file)

The icon to start the ExpEYES-17 software should appear on the system. If something goes wrong, test the installation from a command terminal using the command:

• python3 /usr/share/eyes17/main.py

On MSWindows

• Download the Installer for MS Windows 10 and execute it. It will install the software and will provide an icon to start the ExpEYES-17 software from the Desktop.

You can directly install the Android Version from Google Play store

Software Architecture

ExpEYES software has two parts. One part is the firmware written in C language running on the micro-controller inside the ExpEYES box. The software running on the PC is written in Python programming language. It should run on an system having a Python Interpreter and a USB port. ExpEYES has a USB to Serial converter IC (MCP2200) and it appears as a serial device on the system (a COM port on MSWindows. /dev/ttyACM on GNU/Linux). A communication library having a collecion of functions to access the various features of the hardware is called by the application programs.

Download the zip file and unzip it to your home directory.

• cd eyes17
• python3 main.py

This will ask for many modules like pytho3-serial, python3-numpy, python3-pyqtgraph etc. After installing all of them you will get the GUI Window

On GNU/Linux systems, the permission to access the USB port should be enabled. For that download this shell script and run it:

• sudo sh postinst.sh

ExpEYES software distributed under GNU GPL can be downloaded from the Github repository.