Codebase for the embedded code that runs on the Solar Car. Rivanna3 design cycle.
This code was made by and for the Solar Car Team at UVA. Use elsewhere is not recommended.

Warning: The team wiki has been updated for the current design cycle. See compile_upload.md and dev_guide.md in this repo for archived versions of those pages that are accurate for Rivanna3.

Team Wiki: https://solarcaratuva.github.io/

Compiling: Embedded >> Rivanna3 Compile & Upload
Uploading: Embedded >> Rivanna3 Compile & Upload
Development Guide: Embedded >> Rivanna3 Development Guide

Software Installation

Install PySerial on your computer by running py -m pip install pyserial

• you may need to use python or python3 instead of py

Serial Monitor

Made for basic monitoring, prints all log messages received over serial to the terminal

Attach an ST-Link to a board and your computer, then cd into this repo, then run py monitor.py filepath

• filepath is optional, if included it will save all log messages to the file
• you may need to use python or python3 instead of py

CAN Message Monitoring

For CAN-based advanced logging, debugging, and analysis, see the CAN Message Logger project.

These are recommendations

• View and edit code using VSCode
  • install the extensions: Remote Extensionpack, C++ Tools Extensionpack, Docker, Python
  • Windows Users: use these extensions to remote into where this repo is stored in WSL