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SOFA Soft Robots build on Ubuntu 18.04

Steps to install and build SOFA with soft robots from scratch on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine (windows host)

Naturally we start with update and installing git

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git

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Nodes = rand(15,3);
Tetra = delaunay(Nodes);
DataName='Testdata';
Data=ones(size(Tetra,1),1);

%% ASCII - working
fname='TetraAscii.vtk';

[np,dim]=size(Nodes);
[nt]=size(Tetra,1);

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%% read png and find countours

% img=imread('ex_blob.png');

%% make pretend bitmap image
img_size=512;

img=zeros(img_size,img_size);

% make two squares of different values

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Configure command tweaks

load modules

load module mpi/intel-2018

make wrapper functions for mpi libs

???

run new configure

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import sys
import time
import math
sys.path.append("./Scripts")
GUI_Module=__import__('Device_GUI')

def FWR_read(input_mask, frequency=32, delay=0.5):
    set_frequency(frequency)
    GUI.write_register("AFE4300", "IQ_MODE_ENABLE", 0x00)   #Select FWR Mode
    GUI.write_register("AFE4300", "ADC_CONTROL_REGISTER2", 0x63) #ADCREF to VREF / ADC connected to BCM

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UCL Eduroam on Raspberry Pi

add this to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

network = {
ssid="eduroam"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X
eap=PEAP
identity="#####@ucl.ac.uk"
anonymous_identity="[email protected]"

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1. Hostname, Password, Static IP and SSH port Fail2ban

Could install headless, but I wanted to use gui at first instance to ensure everything working!

Connect to wifi through GUI. Change hostname and ensure SSH enabled in raspberrypi config GUI change password with passwd .

Static IP.

Taken from here, add the following to the bottom of sudo nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf, changing ip addresses where appropriate