Electronic tracer

The "driver-v1" folder

• Use it for physical tracer board, version 1.
• Prerequisites: libudev1 and g++ installed (sudo apt-get install libudev1 build-essential).
• Driver based on Kerry Wong's library (https://github.com/kerrydwong/MCP2210-Library).
• To build the driver-application, run cd driver-v1; make. It will generate the tracer binary, which should be run as root (or with the setuid bit set).

The "driver-mock" folder

• Use it for local testing, without a tracer board. It's a dummy data source.
• Prerequisites: g++ installed.
• To build it, run cd driver-mock; make. It will generate the tracer binary.

The "frontend" directory

• Frontend done using electron.js and apex charts.
• It uses npm.
• To build, run npm install.
• To run, copy the tracer binary (from either driver-v1 or driver-mock directories), and then run npm start.
• Tested with node 14.x.

The driver-v1 requires setuid permissions. See the snippet below.

cd frontend
cp ../driver-v1/tracer .
sudo chown root tracer
sudo chmod +s tracer
npm start

The "board" directory

• Contains the kicad project used for manufacturing the first iteration of the board.