Met all my goals from last week except for testing out multiple cameras because I spent that time doing some research on how to connect the Jetson Nano to a laptop. I think for now, I’m going to try and see how doing USB to TTY works based on some reading I did this week. I should be able to transfer data, but I have to make sure that there isn’t too much latency and that I can then use the data I get as a camera feed. I just got my cable in the mail so I will be starting that this week. If that doesn’t work, then maybe USB to Serial, but I am not sure. 

Made a final selection for the motors. Will be going with stepper motors for controlling the rotation and elevation, and then two micro servos to control each of the cameras. Specifically, two Adafruit NEMA-17 stepper motors, and two TowerPro SG92R micro servos.

Worked with Eddy on the facial detection for CV. I was able to set the motors to spinning when my face wasn’t centered in the frame. I haven’t had the time to test this with the prototype setup because I need to first do some calculations to determine how much and which motors should move based on location.

I also created a prototype of the setup. Luckily, I unearthed an old Vex robot kit in my dad’s office, which was super helpful in creating the elevator shaft. It isn’t fully assembled yet. I have the rotating base and elevator shaft complete. I also need to make a little platform or something that gets moved by the elevator.

My plan of action for this week is to get the prototype completely set up and moving by Wednesday, and then spend the rest of the week getting multiple cameras working, and start on trying to get data transfer from the Jetson Nano to my laptop. I think as a first step for the data transfer, I’m just hoping to be able to transfer over one image, and if that goes well try to get a video feed.