Francesca Cain’s Status Report for November 15

This past week, I worked primarily on preparation for our Interim Demo, and compiling the software work I had completed thus far into our slide deck. I’ve also spent some time debugging the code I have written for translating English text to Braille. Admittedly, I unfortunately had the flu, so I did not fully achieve all of the Tesseract testing this week that I planned to accomplish. Next week, I will get back on track by conducting this testing and taking pictures of medicine bottles for Tesseract to “read”. Next week,  I plan to spend time ordering final parts for our product– that is, our camera, buttons, and speaker, and will spend time helping Abby and Bella to integrate these hardware pieces on a breadboard to work with the Raspberry Pi and the software aspects of our work. The buttons will help provide a tactile response and mechanism for blind users to confirm a photo being taken, and the speaker providing audio (not visual) feedback.