This week was spent on designing slides for the upcoming design review presentation and finding any possible flaws or risks within the design. The main one that was found last week had to do with the fact that the Tobii SDK, which included a Python API, only supports the pro models of Tobii eye-trackers. The Tobii eye-tracker 5 camera that we are buying, instead, has its API in C++. This can be resolved as the Google Coral Dev Board can run both Python and C. This will just require some extra work to allow the two different languages to communicate seamlessly.
The design has been modified slightly for prototyping purposes. One change made was moving from the tablet as the display to a laptop to make uploading the music and corresponding MIDI file easier. This was ultimately necessary to keep the scope of the project completeable by the end of the semester. By keeping everything local and not deploying a website, the feasibility increases and allows us to spend effort on improving audio and visual components. The cost of such a change is that the user experience will be a little less convenient and streamlined. This, however, does not distract from our project as a whole as we are looking to create a digital page-turner and not a wireless music display device.
The schedule has stayed unchanged and ample progress is being made toward a final project. This includes experimenting with different APIs to filter sound and working on implementing dynamic time warping (DTW).