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Malika Meghjani
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Teaching Assistant
- COMP-322 Introduction to C++, Winter 2015 and Winter 2009
- COMP-417 Introduction to Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Fall 2013
- COMP-250 Introduction to Computer Science, Fall 2010 and Fall 2011
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While TA'ing for COMP 417 (Introduction to Robotics and Intelligent Systems) in Fall 2013, I upgraded the BoeBots to work with Arduinos. The BoeBots orginally come with a BASIC stamp which is coded using parallax's version of BASIC language. I used the power and ground connections of the BoeBots to power the Arduino and re-wired the motors, servo and sensor (SONAR, Buzzer) pins so that they could be controlled using the Arduino. Here are the instructions for re-wiring and writing some simple code using Arduino IDE: BoeBot with Arduinos.
For one of the final projects in COMP 417, I extended the BoeBot and Arduino setup to use an XBee module for communication with a laptop. This allowed the students to map an environment with the onboard SONAR on the BoeBot and remotely visualize it on their laptop. For the communications, I used a XBee on the laptop which was paired with the XBee on the BoeBot. The detailed instructions for pairing two XBees can be found at this link. For mapping, transmitting and visualizing the SONAR values I used rosserial and OpenCV libraries.
As a TA for COMP 322 (Introduction to C++), I got several requests for using Eclipse on Windows platform. So, I compiled the following instructions based on this
video.
Instructions:
Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> Build -> Environment -> Add -> variable: PATH, Value: give the path to where you installed gcc
File -> Import -> C/C++ -> Existing Code as Makefile Project,
then Browse to the place where you unziped the package. Before you finish: uncheck "Show only available toolchains that support this platform" and select MinGW from the box. This will setup the toolchain.