Running NuPIC on Raspberry Pi

Requirements

• Minimum of 8GB SD card
• Download and install a Raspbian image
• Set up 1GB of swap space

Install Required Libraries

1. Run cmd: sudo apt-get upgrade
2. Run cmd: sudo apt-get install automake libtool python-dev gcc-4.7 g++-4.7 swig libboost-dev libjpeg62-dev
3. download and install setuptools from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.9.8
4. download and install pip from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

Get Code and Build

1. Run cmd: git clone https://github.com/keithcom/nupic.git
2. edit ~/.bashrc as per the nupic/README.md
3. Run cmd: source ~/.bashrc
4. Run cmd: $NUPIC/build.sh

Note that the full build process may take 6 hours to complete, so be patient. The output of the build process is at $BUILDDIR/stdout.txt. You can view the progress in real time with the following command.

tail -f $BUILDDIR/stdout.txt

Use Ctrl-C to stop viewing the output file. Once the build is complete you should be able to run the test scripts as per the README.

$NTA/bin/htmtest