Interactive Programming Experience for VS Code

Our 3rd year group project was issued by Microsoft with the objective to create an interactive programming experience that combines a rich editor experience with Jupyter Notebooks. We built the back-end using TypeScript and the VS Code API. I focused mainly on the front-end, specifically the UI, which was built using the Angular Framework. The final extension was capable of running and displaying interactive graphs, images, maps and more in cards that could be managed by the user and even exported to Jupyter. Both Python and R could be used simultaneously and with features including selecting, filter, searching and opening in browser the user is able to view and analyse their data however they want. The extension was published on the VS Code Marketplace and has over 15,000 downloads.

For more information, please view the GitHub repository and the VS Code Marketplace.

Q-Engine

During my spare time during the summer I built a simple 2D game engine. It's written in C++ and uses SDL2 to help with the rendering and IO management. The engine supports animated sprites, fonts, sound effects/music and includes managers to aid with events and inputs and also streamline the loading and rendering of any assets. I also coded basic physics including collision detetcion of AABB, Circles and Lines and functions for applying forces, friction and gravity. It also includes a "Camera" class which automatically performs camera culling of the scene and a "MainGame" class which setups up the engine and provides the structure to start building a simple game.

I also built some games to help aid development:

• "Asteroid" space game which helped me get started
• A Topdown Shooter which helped test font printing, audio and animated sprites
• "Physics Playground" showcasing the collision detection and response

instruMentor - Music Teacher Robot

As a group project in Human Centred Robotics we were tasked with designing and building a robot. Our Robot teaches recorder via robotic 3D printed hands which imitate real hand positions. It has microphones for Note Recogistion and a Voice Assistant which can answer questions such as "How do you play a G?". The robot provides feedback via emojis, as the user plays notes the robot recognises it and updates the display accordingly. I designed and implemented the display and UI components as well as the "Lesson Controller" which intergrates all the components using multiple threads. The project was coded in Python and the entire robot ran on a Raspberry Pi.

The project was selected for the 20th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS) and won the IET Prize for Innovation in Robotics.

BrickPi Robot

As a requirement of my 3rd year robotics course, our team had to design and build a robot from Lego Technic and program it in Python using BrickPi. The robot was capable of making precise movements using odometry and Monte Carlo localisation with the help of a sonar sensor. The final challenge was to program the robot to navigate through an obstacle course as quickly as possible.

C-89 Compiler

For Language Processors in 2nd year we were tasked to build a complete compiler for C-89 into MIPS assembly instructions. This included creating a lexer in Flex and parser in Bison. My compiler was capable of compiling arithmetic, control flow statements, function calls and other simple programming tasks for integers.

FPGA Drawing App

The program allowed the user to apply different effects to several areas of an image coming from a camera feed in real time. We created 6 filters using Catapult C including edge detection and a colour inverter which were selected using toggle switches. Sections of the image could be selected by left clicking on the area with the mouse, different filters could be applied to different parts of the image at the same time. Selected areas could be removed using undo or reset trigged via the mouse.