Alan Song’s Status Report for 10/2

This week, I spent most of time playing around with different libraries and APIs for controlling the mouse cursor, as well as working on our Design Review slides. I tested out pywin32, pyautogui, and mouse modules for Python. I found that while pywin32 and pyautogui also provided the necessary functionality for moving and clicking the mouse, the mouse module for Python was the easiest to work with and produced code that was easy to understand with its great attribute naming. Once I settled on using the mouse library, I made some test programs for simple actions such as moving the mouse to absolute and relative positions based on inputted number data (which will eventually be position data received from the hand detection algorithm). The clicking and scrolling functionality was much simpler to get work with and will require input from the gesture detection algorithm to be transformed into simple numerical inputs to trigger the different mouse actions. Additionally, I worked with the team on the Design Review slides, mostly focusing on fleshing out my own section about the mouse module but also participating in discussions with the team about the design overall. I am still on schedule with my own work but after the meeting with the professor and TA this week I think we can modify our schedule a bit to extend harder tasks and shrink the easier tasks instead of just assigning tasks to a 1 week length. In the next week, I will likely be assisting Brian or Andrew with getting one of their components started with development since I am a bit ahead of my own schedule.