This week, I began coding some of the hint module. In the paper which we are basing the algorithm off of, they use something called cross-checks (possible letters that can fit in a word vertically if a horizontal word is played and vice versa), and I wrote a function that takes in the state of the board and updates the cross check set for each square. I also wrote a function to find anchor squares (empty squares directly adjacent to filled squares), which will be a starting place for word generation.
I got the Raspberry Pi camera set up and took a picture of our Scrabble board to start with initial testing with our cv. It was hard to get a great angle with the Pi camera so making some sort of intermediary rig might be helpful for the future. Here are the pictures I took:
