Installation instructions: You must have SimpleCV installed first! http://simplecv.org Mac OS X (Using homebrew) ======== > brew install mongodb > easy_install ming > easy_install cherrypy > hg clone https://bitbucket.org/tino/pyfirmata && cd pyfirmata && python setup.py install Linux (Using apt-get) ======= > apt-get install mongodb-server python-pymongo > easy_install ming > easy_install cherrypy > hg clone https://bitbucket.org/tino/pyfirmata && cd pyfirmata && python setup. py install