# About the BlueBox ----------------- The bluebox is a USB-powered ground station box design for the AAUSAT3 cubesat satellite. The device firmware, control software and hardware is licensed under the MIT license with the hope that it may be useful to other cubesat projects. The device is built around the Analog Devices ADF7021 transceiver and controlled by an Atmel ATMEGA32U4 microcontroller with hardware USB. The firmware makes use of the open source LUFA USB stack and uses libusb and pyusb for communication between the device and control program, bbctl. # How to install bbctl Make sure libusb is installed on the system. On Ubuntu this can be installed by issuing the following command: ``` $ sudo apt-get install libusb1.0-0 ``` Install bbctl together with python dependencies: ``` $ sudo pip2 install -r requirements.txt $ sudo python2 setup.py install ``` Note that you need gcc to compile the FEC extension module. ## Optional Copy the udev rules to /etc/udev/rules.d, to allow user space access to the Bluebox: ``` $ sudo cp udev/* /etc/udev/rules.d ```