README.md

Readme for myo hand washing project

Preparation for this project:

- This project depends on Python3.

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• Install VLC player:

  • MacOS users: Please install VLC library by HomeBrew, with command

    brew cask install vlc

  • Windows users: Please download and install vlc(x64 version) from VideoLan.

    Then set the environment path:

    PYTHON_VLC_MODULE_PATH
    to
    C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC other installed directory.

• Install python-vlc package, by:

  pip/pip3 install python-vlc

  Please Note:
  

  Not pip3 install vlc
  It is different package

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• Install myo-python, by:

  pip/pip3 install myo-python

  Please Note:
  

  Not pip3 install myo
  It is different package

• Modify myo-python Library:

  please edit the myo-python library, at Event class in myo._ffi.py, by adding:

  @property
  def device_point(self):
    return libmyo.libmyo_event_get_myo(self._handle)
  

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• Install PyQt5 Library:

  pip/pip3 install PyQt5

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• Users with PyCharm:

  Please turn off the "Show plots in tool window" at Setting > Tools > Python Scientific

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• Users with MacOS in Mojave:

  Please create document of matplotlibrc at ~/.matplotlib, by adding:

    backend : Agg
  

  or, when using matplotlib,

    import matplotlib
    matplotlib.use('Agg')
  

To Run project / Collect data (4 armbands)

For Now, this project could be only functioned on Windows platform (Windows 10), because the matplotlib and PyQt5 libraries could not worked with multi-processes in MacOS platform.

Please add your armband MAC address inside collect_data.py

To start with terminal (Mac):

python/python3 interface-host.py

To start with terminal (Windows):

python/python3 interface-sub.py

Using Pycharm:

Run interface-host.py or interface-sub.py

To Run project / Collect data (3 armbands

Please switch to another branch

The collected data will locate on:

myo/data