# Tardis prototype project

This project (codename Tardis) is a research project with the goal to create a programming environment suited towards blind people and people with a cognitive impairment that prevents learning most programming languages.

Planned features:

- Simple programming language
- Audio playing
- Speech synthesis

## Hardware

Development is based around ST's [32F769IDISCOVERY](https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/32f769idiscovery.html) evaluation board. These boards cost around $90 USD and provide an easy to use development board that can be debugged and flashed over USB. No soldering or assembly is required to have a complete development environment.

## How to use

Install the following packages on your Linux system: ```git cmake ninja arm-none-eabi-gcc stlink python3 screen```

Follow these steps:

```
git clone https://git.lumina-sensum.com/git/LuminaSensum/Tardis.git
cd Tardis
git clone https://git.lumina-sensum.com/git/LuminaSensum/mbed-os.git
sudo ./scripts/setup-udev.sh
./scripts/findboard.sh
./scripts/build.sh
./scripts/serial.sh
```

Now hit some buttons on the board and see what happens.

Note 1: If flashing fails and complains about resetting, hold the reset button on the board while flashing.

Note 2: Hit 'ctrl-a backslash' to quit the serial screen.

## License

All documentation and software for this project is under the MIT license unless otherwise specified.

Copyright: 2024 Casey Reeves <casey.reeves@lumina-sensum.com>

Copyright: 2024 John Watts <john.watts@lumina-sensum.com>

SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT