Motor Control and Hash Cracking

Requirement

In this project, we are required to

Control motor to reach targeted rotation in both direction, with target speed ranging from 5 rps to 100 rps.
Use pwm to generate melody
Mining bitcoin while idle, at exact rate of 5000 nonces per second

Detailed requirement can be found from CW2-specification.pdf.

src folder contains all the source file,
- main.cpp for bootstrap
- commandParser.cpp for parsing serial input
- hashCracker.cpp for hash cracking
- motorController.cpp for control motor's rotations, speed and melody
include folder contains the header files for the source files (except main.cpp)
- It also contains dataStructure.hpp for declaring shared data structure and constant across source files.

The image above provide an overview of the components and how they interact.

More details and critical time analysis can be found in the report.

Follow PIO to install PIO on any platform you prefer.
Alternatively, open the root folder of this project in VSCode, install the recommended extension.
Plug in the mbed device, and run upload in PIO to upload to device.
If compile time is long (over 5 minutes), check .mbedignore file in folder pio_core/packages/framework-mbed/components are not overwritten.

Located under folder bin/firmware.bin