Hi everyone, I’m Shiluka Dharmasena, Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Thanks very much for this great opportunity to get involves in FOSSASIA open source project and I’m keen to give my fullest contribution to the FOSSASIA. For GSoC 2015, I am developing a library to support knitting machines. It’s great to work with FOSSASIA team under awesome mentors Mario Behling and Christian Obersteiner. This is the Initial suggestions for the project.
Library to support knitting machines
Basic abstraction of the library to create library as separate layers
- Serial communication : open, configure, read and write to serial port
- Machine definitions : machine initialization, load to machine, save from machine
- Image handling functions : memory allocation, read image file, setter and getter for image pixels
- File handling functions : read / write access
- Common utility functions
Add dependencies for the library
There are several dependency libraries which ayab has such as pillow, pyserial, wsgiref, fysom and yapsy with relevant versions. These dependencies should be added to the library.
Functions for the library
For access hardware directly
* Identify existing libraries to interface with hardware
* Use libraries to deal with serial ports
* Ability to get all the functions via library (for an example functions in ayabControl.py and add more functions to support in more machines)
* Ability to send QT signals
Emulate file formats
* Create functions to emulate file format
Add Arduino support
Installation
Installation should be well documented in step by step. Additionally I suggest to add GUI based installation with usability improvements with standard installation procedures.
* Installation on Linux (32bit, 64bit)
* Prerequisites
* Setup
* Installation on Windows (32bit, 64bit)
* Prerequisites
* Setup
Tests on the library
Use a python test framework like unittest to test the python library. It supports test automation and aggregation of the tests into collection.