This week our team finalized our decisions on parts we will be using for the project, and completed the order request forms. We mainly worked on preparing for design presentation that is coming up on next week. On the proposal presentation, we got feedback that our timing requirements were arbitrary. So, we worked with the professors and TAs to refine our timing requirements based on real chess game data. We also made sure that the board Demi will be designing meets the requirements for the CV processing (eg: it should have contrast between adjacent chess squares). We also made sure that we are budgeting our money correctly.
Demi’s Status Report for 9/25
This week, I spent my time researching which LEDs to use. For our project, we only need 64 LEDs, one for each square of the 8×8 chessboard. There are two main requirements for our LEDs. The LEDs should be individually programmable to correctly display the AI’s move. Another requirement is that they should be able to transmit more than one color in order to deal with the ambiguity of castling, where four squares are lit up instead of two. We are going with WS2812B, which is the cheapest and most common LED strip that satisfies our needs.
Demi’s Status Report for 9/18
This week I worked with my group members to finalize our project idea. Based off Professor Yu’s suggestion, we now have two main areas: computer vision and creating a customized LED board. I will be working on designing and making the chessboard. I also worked on the proposal presentation slides and helped creating the Gantt chart.
Next week I will begin designing the chessboard. I hope to have a complete design by next week so I can start laser cutting the board the following week.