{"id":251,"date":"2020-12-05T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/?p=251"},"modified":"2020-12-05T19:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T19:48:46","slug":"ishaans-status-report-for-12-05-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/2020\/12\/05\/ishaans-status-report-for-12-05-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishaan&#8217;s Status Report for 12\/05\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These past 2 weeks, we have finally completed Ballbot and have tested different parts of our project. I helped redesign the casing for the hardware , added a GUI for the touch screen, and also tuned the computer vision to work with outdoor tennis courts. Instead of just having the hardware on the roof of the robot, I helped design a second layer to go on top of the hardware that would also encase the touchscreen. We decided to add a touch screen to the top of the Ballbot so that it is easy for a user to turn the Ballbot on and off.<\/p>\n<p>For the UI, I made a simple GUI in Python with 3 buttons to start and stop collecting balls, as well as turn Ballbot off. I integrated the GUI with our existing software so that controlling Ballbot is as easy as possible. To do this, I used Tkinter for the UI elements and the Threading library to have a thread waiting for user input while the rest of the code is running. On the software side, I also tuned the computer vision thresholds to better work with out door lighting. This allowed us to test the Ballbot outside and see it work on the tennis courts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-254\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2020\/12\/photo5071537940949215509-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2020\/12\/photo5071537940949215509-300x139.jpg 300w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2020\/12\/photo5071537940949215509-768x355.jpg 768w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2020\/12\/photo5071537940949215509-1024x473.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2020\/12\/photo5071537940949215509.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These past 2 weeks, we have finally completed Ballbot and have tested different parts of our project. I helped redesign the casing for the hardware , added a GUI for the touch screen, and also tuned the computer vision to work with outdoor tennis courts. Instead of just having the hardware on the roof of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/2020\/12\/05\/ishaans-status-report-for-12-05-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ishaan&#8217;s Status Report for 12\/05\/2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f20-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}