Overview:

This season, we have designed two project options for members to choose from. You must select and complete one of the following projects before the second meeting:

  1. Computer Vision: Detect the Earth in the famous Pale Blue Dot image
  2. SWE / ROS2: Explore our code pipeline and write software to receive a message published by our robot
  3. ML: Create an image classifier model (very difficult).

You should have already filled out the Google Form to join the team (if not, DM @tomdonel). Within 48 hours of filling out the form, you will receive an email with your login information to the development server.

To log onto the server, follow these instructions:

If you are on MacOS or Ubuntu:

  • For MacOS, install XQuartz: https://www.xquartz.org/.
  • Open a terminal window and type: ssh -XC your_puid@tx2.purduerm.org -p 10051.
  • Enter your password (from email) and you will be placed into your home directory. If you are asked to accept/deny a key, accept it.
  • Your starter code for onboarding is waiting for you!

If you are on Windows:

  • Install X410 server from https://www.x410.dev (free version).
  • Install PuTTY from https://www.putty.org.
  • Open PuTTY. Under the “Connection” > “SSH” > “X11” settings, make sure the Enable X11 forwarding option is checked. Set localhost:0.0 as the “X display location”. For your login information:
    • Hostname: tx2.purduerm.org
    • Port: 10051
  • In the save/load box save this profile with a name. Every time you want to log in, you will load this profile.
  • Hit connect, and for Username/Password see your email. You will be placed into your home directory! If you are asked to accept/deny a key, accept it.
  • Your starter code for onboarding is waiting for you!

You should now get started on your onboarding project! See the wiki page of your specific project for instructions. Good luck!