User:Casey.OHare

Personal Info

• My name is Casey O'Hare and I am a undergraduate at Marquette University studying Computer Science and Mathematics

Week 1 (6/1 - 6/5)

• Attended introductory session; learned about REU program
• Met with Dr. Brylow and research group members
• Attended Systems lab orientation with Dr. Dennis Brylow
• Took pre-REU NSF survey
• Began learning MUzECS from last year
• Learned about how block-based coding works

Week 2 (6/5 - 6/12)

• Started to research online block-based IDEs for the new MUzECS platform
• Met with Dr. Brylow
• Developed a plan with research group members about how to move MUzECS to chrome
• Made sample programs in ArduBlock
• Looked through ArduBlock's code repository in order to find out how block logic was made
• Discovered Blockly from Google to use as a IDE and forked the repository

Week 3

• Met with Dr. Brylow
• Learned more about Google's Blockly and how it is built
• Started to create our own blocks in the online IDE
• Began to search for how to transfer compiled code from Chrome to the Arduino through USB
• Found a Chrome Extension that we could not figure out how it worked that would talk to the Arduino
• Found how to create a Chrome App that can use the Google serial API to talk to serial ports

Week 4

• Met with Dr. Brylow
• Adopted the Google serial API to use AVR109 protocol to succesfully talk to the Arudino over the serial port and send code to it
• Finished making ECS blocks on the online IDE
• Finished with Chrome App to allow communication to Arudino
• Created an INO server that would take code from the online IDE and compile it and send it to the Chrome App
• Overall finished MUzECS project for now
• Soldered MUzECS shields for high schools

Week 5

• Met with Dr. Brylow
• Talked about what to work on next. Decided on XinuPi conversion
• This project was already started and we planned out how to finish it
• Learned about why kexec was not working correctly and attempted to fix it
• Ordered hardware to interface with the Rasberry Pi through serial port

Week 6

• Met with Dr. Brylow
• Found out the MAC address was being randomly generated by Pis instead of being constant
• Began learning how MAC addresses were resolved and learned about the Mailbox Interface to talk to the Pi hardware
• Successfully got each MAC address straight from the hardware fixing this issue
• Connected Pis via serial port and was able to use it