This week I mainly worked on making the full game work. I added a function for user to press the push button after moving for the AI, to allow our CV to compare two frames between the human player’s move. I added code for the human player to press the button at the start of the game to capture the initial board state. I also made some changes to how the LEDs light up and tested them. After human and computer players’ moves, we check for the game end state. When it is checkmate, all the LEDs light up in the color of the winner of the game, either red or blue. I also unified the paths for the captured and cropped images. There also was an issue with our new webcam setup and image orientation, which I fixed by rotating the images to the correct orientation before handing it over to the CV pipeline.
Next week I plan to do end to end testing and work on the final video and report.