This week, I ordered the hardware components that we plan on using for our project. This includes the Raspberry Pi Zero, camera, battery, and Nvidia Jetson. One issue I ran into while ordering parts was that the original camera that I selected was out of stock in many stores, and would take multiple weeks to arrive in others. Therefore, I ordered the backup camera instead, which is the Unistorm Raspberry Pi Zero W Camera. This camera has the same resolution and FOV, and is a very similar size, so I feel comfortable ordering it as a replacement. I also ordered an Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kit from ECE inventory, which we plan on using to host our server with our ML models. Finally, I spent some time working with a Raspberry Pi 4 and Arducam module to test how to send an image wirelessly from the Pi. I plan on making more progress on this throughout the coming week.
I am slightly behind schedule, as even though I have ordered all of the hardware components, I have not looked into how to give the buttons texture so that they can be easily differentiated. However, I don’t expect this to take too much time, and I should be able to figure out the solution this weekend. For the next week, while I wait for components I hope to continue testing out how to send images wirelessly with a Raspberry Pi 4 and compatible camera. However, I don’t expect this to take up a lot of time, so I plan on helping my group members with their work. Specifically, I plan on helping gather image data for training our ML models, and I will get more information on what data to gather from Nithya.