- Wiring and hardware work most of the week.
- Documenting the updates.
Phase II Raspberry Pi/Signals/Sensors/Simulator
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
9 May '21
- Documentation exceeds 50,000 words.
- Configuring the Wabbits and wiring feedback is not going well.
- Without an Arduino Mega hard to check software interaction.
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
23 May '21
- Working on the laptop to raspberry Pi command processing
- Looking at Tkinter as a GUI for the laptop python applications/tools
- Review of added commands and command documentation
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
30 May '21
- Lots of new software tools and updates:
- PyCharm Python IDE on the Laptop
- Tkiner GUI Library for the Laptop
- Update Arduino IDE
- Started top level design of the Laptop part of TrainThing
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
6 Jun '21
- Simulator "Quick Start Video" needs updating
- Working with PyCharm IDE
- Why is the Raspberry Pi GPIO pin 18 turned on?
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
13 Jun '21
- Updated diagram of Raspberry Pi GPIO pin out / usage
- Added diagram of software modules
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
20 Jun '21
- Spent the week working on the low level Fan Library
- Fan controlled by a selectable PWM
- Accesses the CPU temperature & Frequency
- Monitor optional fan control switch
- Manual/Auto mode
- On/Off in manual mode
- Auto mode controls the fan based on
- Selectible on/off CPU temperatures
- Optional CPU frequency
- And the Fan module which uses the unicorn LED array to display
- CPU temperature
- CPU frequency
- Fan on/off
- Manual/Auto mode
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
27 Jun '21
- Got the fan status display and support software working the way I want it
- Implemented the sphinx, autodoc, reStructuredText , docstring documentation of the software implemented
- Reviewed all software documentation and got it up to the new standard (mostly)
- Fixed one OS problem and focused on a power problem,
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.
Re: Phase II Documentation Updates
4 Jul '21
- Software work on Raspberry Pi command processing
- Learning features of the PyCharm IDE
- Hardware failure?
Say what you will about Sisyphus. He always has work.