Week 1 Summary
The first week of our project was mainly experimenting and familiarising ourselves with the scope of our project and the equipment. Erik was wokring on the communication code, so the arduino and computer will be able to interface. This is what Erik had to say: To allow communication between the main C/C++ code running on a desktop and the Arduino, we decided to use an existing library to simplify the process instead of writing the fundamental serial communication code ourselves, which could have proved challenging in the time-frame we have for this project. Many of the libraries that we considered had trouble compiling at all, and the only one we have found that compiled is poorly documented and difficult to find the origin of. However, it is the only one that is working so we will be using it for the time being. If a better one is found, we will switch to it. Finally, when trialling the library, we discovered that it would receive ‘junk’ data from the Arduino that would ...