Firmware Mandate W2022

Owned by Jess Douglas Muir (Deactivated)
Last updated: May 03, 2022 by Mitchell Langdon Ostler
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Midnight Sun’s firmware team is responsible for writing all the code in the car, as well as some software projects like our telemetry system, our driver display, and some software tools for hardware to use.

This term we’ll be taking the opportunity provided by a new car to upgrade some of our core firmware infrastructure. We’ll be upgrading our build system and switching to an industry-standard Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) for our firmware projects.

We’re a student oriented design team, meaning our primary goal is to make members better engineers. Our informal goal is to give everyone a chance to put a meaningful point on their resume from their time on the team.

Member Responsibilities

  • Gain exposure to firmware and various software skills such as:

    • writing firmware in C to run on microcontrollers or emulated microcontrollers

    • writing software in python and C to create tools for validating firmware

    • writing software in various languages for projects like our telemetry system or driver display

    • write tests for firmware and other software to validate your work

  • Attend twice weekly offsite standups (mandatory)

Required Skills

  • Know the basics of programming

  • That’s literally it, you can learn as you go

Communication

 

Firmware Lead: Jarvis Weng

About: 3A CE. Been on the team since September 2019. Worked with in C++, Python, JS, Java, Bash

Ask me about: C/C++, Python, Java, setting up your dev environment, anything you’re stuck on, or if you just want to chat

Hobbies: Anime & Manga

 

Firmware Lead: Mitchell Ostler

About: I’m in 2A Comp eng, and I’ve gained experience in embedded development from several different companies in ontario.

Ask me about: General programming/embedded system questions, drivers, libraries, setting up dev environment.

Fun Facts: I don’t play the bass

Where to go from this page

Let Ryan or Mitchell (whether you’re onsite or offsite) know on Slack that you’d like to join the team, then check out our extensive onboarding: Firmware - Getting Started .

Offsite standups are Wednesdays 8:00-8:15 PM and Saturdays 1:00-1:15 PM.

Onsite standup times are TBD. They’ll still take place remotely, but are just for talking about onsite work.