Pallavi – Looked into microprocessor alternatives to rapberry pi’s
Shreyas – Looked into iRoomba sensor specifics and did more research into how we plan on building our cart base
Arushi – Started implementing basic color detection using OpenCV.
We also looked more into what hardware we’d like to use and have decided on the iRoomba Create as our base and a raspberry pi for the image processing. We are considering other alternatives to a raspberry pi, but for the time being we are going to start development on the pi and invest in more powerful hardware if we see that it is needed.
All of us:
This week we worked on our presentation and re-scoping out our project based on feedback given during the meeting last week.
Next week, we hope to start working with the iRoomba for motor controls, have a working OpenCV color detector, and start looking into the UART interfacing between our micro-controller and iRoomba.
We hope to get some significant work done this coming week in order to set up our project and hit the ground running!