This week, I worked on getting the Raspberry Pi script done for the depth camera and the csv output. However, upon setting up the Raspberry Pi, I realized that it is actually faulty. As a result, we will be using my Intel NUC for the time being, just so that we have something to demo on for this week.
The script works well and prompts the depth camera when run, but I suspect that there is an issue with the camera because it is not able to pick up important facial features and details that other cameras should be able to pick up. We suspect that it may be a problem with the Intel Realsense camera and are hoping to find an alternative or purchase another one. It is important for us to be able to have a camera that can pick up small details because our picture will ultimately be downsampled, so if we are already at a disadvantage with our camera quality, we will be at a bigger disadvantage when it comes to our image output on the pin board.
Regardless, I am still able to run the script on the NUC, and it works well. All we need to get done is figure out a way to send the CSV file to the STM32 for further computation and ultimately allow us to push the pins out.