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Documentation

Table of Contents

What is Micromouse

Video

Getting Started

Quick setup using a virtual machine (recommended)

  1. Install tools
  2. Fork this repo and clone it
  3. Run $ vagrant up to install VM. (Video)
    • This is a virtual machine installation command. Requires around 8GB.
    • This will take at least 20 minutes. Have a cup of coffee :)
  4. After successful install, connect to the machine via SSH using MobaXterm. (Video)
  5. $ cd ~/wolfiemouse. This is our project root directory.

Regular setup without virtual machine (when virtual machine not working properly)

To be added.

Vagrant-HOWTO

Vagrant is a tool for Virtual Machine. Vagrant abstract virtual machine interfaces and will automate system configuration of a VM, so we will have a unified working environment.

Prerequisites

See Install tools section in Get Started Document. Don't forget to add Git directories in PATH.

How to boot a vagrant VM

The following command will boot up the VM in background:

$ vagrant up

If you run the above code for the first time, it will install the operating system and the software we use in the project. This initial process will take around 20 minuetes so have a cup of coffee.

How to connect a terminal(SSH) to the VM

We can connect the virtual machine through SSH(remote terminal). The defualt configuration to connect is:

  • Address: 127.0.0.1
  • Port: 2222
  • User: vagrant

How to close the VM

Simple, just commend:

$ vagrant halt

How to delete the VM

This is also simple. Run:

$ vagrant destroy

You can re-install the VM using $ vagrant up any time.

Troubleshooting

  1. It says we need to install SSH: Don't forget add Git directories ({your-git-installation-path}/Git/bin and {your-git-installation-path}/Git/usr/bin) in PATH environment variable. Git has SSH tools for you.
  2. Timeout error : Firstly, check if your CPU supports virtualization (VT-x). If it doesn't you cannot use the VM and Vagrant. Consider installing Ubuntu in a separated partition. If your CPU supports VT-x but you still have that problem, the BIOS might disabled the CPU virtualization feature. Go to BIOS and enable it.

Github-HOWTO

Reference: https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/

Set up your repository

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/{your-id}/WolfieMouse

  • Add our repo as a new remote upstream

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/kbumsik/WolfieMouse

Make new change input your repository

Check what you changed

$ git status

Add your changes into staged mode

$ git add {files-you-changed} or $ git add --all

Double check change

$ git status

Commit change

$ git commit -m "some message. e.g. what you changed"

Push it to your repository

$ git push origin master

Then you can make a pull request later

Update your repo with upstream

  • Update your local repo with upstream

First get information of upstream

$ git fetch upstream

next,

$ git pull upstream master

or

$ git rebase upstream/master

Then

$ git submodule update --recursive

  • push it to origin repo, your forked repository

$ git push origin master

Useful git commands

  • git log --decorate --all --graph
  • git fetch upstream master
  • git stash and git stash pop
  • git diff <commit>

KiCad-HOWTO

KiCad is one of the most famous EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software. This is mainly developed and supported my CERN. It provides a full set of PCB design tools, including shcematic, PCB footprint, and 3D model generation. The best thing about KiCad is absolutly free.

However, it comes at a price. I mean it is not easy to get used to it. Especially, there are a lot of very tricky thing you would hardly figure out (seriously.) So I highly recommend going there some tutorials. By the way, do not try to read manuals. It is not worth time :P

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