Dualpanto Firmware

Welcome to the dualpantoframework repository. This repository contains the JS framework to generate hardware config, firmware and some useful tools to debug and test the pantograph.

For BIS students

Currently this repo is mainly used for Firmware and Kinematics lecutre of Bulding Interactive System (BIS) class. Please read Pre-Installation and Firmware Uploading sections. If you have any question, please ask to your TA.

Pre-Installation

Install the ESP32 driver

• Download the installer for your OS-Version.
• Run the installer.

Setup C++ environment

• Install node (v12.22.1) and npm (v6.14.12)

macOS

• Go to Appstore and install Xcode
• Run xcode-select –install to install the compilers
• Run sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

windows

• Install Visual Studio 2019 or 2017
• Select at least the workload “Desktopentwicklung mit C++”

Install Platformio

Please follow the respective instruction.

• VS code user
• CLion user

Firmware Uploading

Generate hardware config via npm

npm run script config

This converts each version's hardware config file written in json into .hpp and .cpp file in firmware.

Upload Firmware

Please follow the respective instruction.

• VS code user
• CLion user

Troubleshooting

OSX: if you want to upload a new firmware version to a device you have to make sure the upload_port of platformio is set correctly in the firmware/platformio.ini file like this: upload_port = /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART

Development

version 0.3

dev : Jonas Bounama, Lukas Wagner, Daniel-Amadeus Johannes Glöckner, Julius Rudolph, Oliver Schneider, Jotaro Shigeyama, Alexander Meißner, Nico Böckhoff, Shohei Katakura (active developer)

firstname.lastname@hpi.de

Documentation

• Transmission Protocol: The communication protocol between the framework and the device is specified here.
• setup: Instuctions on how to set up the framework for different operating systems.