Installation
Software installation
Download releases from our releases page.
Choosing the correct installer for your operating system. We build releases of
Strand Camera and Braid for recent Ubuntu Linux Long Term Support (LTS)
releases. Each Ubuntu release has a version number (e.g. "24.04") and a code
name (e.g. "Noble Numbat"). The installers at the releases page hosted on Github
are available in the "Assets" section with names like:
strand-braid-ubuntu-<UBUNTU_VERSION>-<STRAND_BRAID_VERSION>.zip
. Here
UBUNTU_VERSION
could be something like 2404
which would correspond to Ubuntu
24.04. Download and expand this .zip
file. It contains a README.txt
file
with further instructions and a .deb
file which can be installed by the Ubuntu
operating system by double-clicking in the file manager.
Hardware installation
Cameras
Currently Basler cameras are best supported. We use Basler's Pylon library to access the cameras.
Allied Vision Cameras using the Vimba X library is planned for Strand Camera and Braid version 0.12.
Trigger box
Braid uses the Straw Lab Triggerbox hardware to synchronize the cameras. This is based on an Arduino microcontroller.
On Ubuntu, it is important to add your user to the dialout
group so that you
can access the Triggerbox. Do so like this:
sudo adduser <username> dialout
Trigger cables
TODO: write this and describe how to check everything is working.