This week I made some progress on getting the Nvidia Jetson set up for development. I created a bootable USB with the Jetson-speficic ISO image. I am able to boot from it, but we will need some persistant storage to really get the environment set up. After some more research into using OpenCV on embedded processing, I found that we should heavily consider adding the Jetpack 6.x software development kit to utilize CUDA processing for the CV. Once the OS is fully installed, we can fully start software development. And over time as the PCB and the camera arrive, I can start integrating these onto the Jetson and begin testing of each detection system’s accuracy and testing for improvements on the overall detection routine we have planned.
Overall I am slightly behind on schedule. I hope to have the Jetson set up this upcoming week, and once that is finished, I will meet with Kevin to make sure that we can download pyhton chess and stockfish to the board and build the system software. I have never really done much devlopment with using multiple languages in a single code base so this might cause some slight unexpected delays.
Over the next week I plan to split my time to spend on the design document and getting the entire system software stack ready for use after break. I plan on staying in Pittsburgh over Fall Break, so I can make sure that this will be completed before the second half of the semester.