This week, the main thing we did as a team was place our first set of orders. We ordered all the parts necessary for the main launch mechanism , which we plan to have done by the interim demo. We already started building it this weekend and so far it is going smoothly. On top of that, we all individually worked on our sections of the project and the Ethics Assignment.
As usual, we still believe that the launcher mechanism is the biggest risk of our project, but we are doing our best to get that part done as soon as possible to mitigate this risk. If we are confident in this by/before the interim demo, we will have confidence that everything else can come together as well.
The only changes made to the existing design of the system is that the CV, depth AI, and target coordination will all be done on the Oak-D Pro camera’s processor rather than the Raspberry Pi, which is just as capable and there will be less back and forth between the components. However, there is no change in costs and the overall project design is still the same as before.