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Hi, I've taken the recently released libpixyusb from Charmed Labs' pixy repository & made a ROS node around it. At the time of this writing, it only supports USB streaming of plain signiture & color-code block data. It will also subscribe to a servo command topic and move the servos for pan-tilt... though I don't have any demo for that (yet).

Here is a link to my source code. I welcome any feedback and/or collaboration from interested users. I've already created a to-do list on the github page of features I'd like to add. Please feel free to add suggestions there.

Hi, I'm not in exactly your situation, but maybe I can help. I needed to install from source as well without using apt because I was on an ARM board that isn't supported by ROS's apt repositories... though I did have root. What I did was to follow the instructions for installing rosdep using pip:

sudo pip install -U rosdep

and just do the same for wstool. To get around the not-having-root issue, use the '-E <your-install-path>' command line parameter in pip to have it install somewhere you can access. Of course, you'll also have to drop the 'sudo' in front. You'll still have to deal with path issues probably, but at least you'll have the tools.