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3/2/19 Suann Progress Report

This week I spent 7 hours meeting with my teammates to work on the design paper submission and make decisions about the timeline of our project. We also wrote the team progress update together. I have reached out to Shreyas about setting up a Raspberry Pi with CMU Wi-fi since it is not a straightforward task.

I have fully finished reading up on Lucas-Kanade this week.

For this upcoming week, since it is already March, I will move on to working with the Raspberry Pi and setting up the piezo sensor circuit. Since the Pi cannot take analog input directly, I will do research into whether or not we want to stick with the Pi or if we want to move on to an Arduino instead. If the Pi is still viable, I will order the necessary parts to set up a circuit this week and start off the Pi with Python. If not, I will alert my teammates that I will be moving on to the Arduino instead.

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Suann Update 2/23

This week I worked on setting up the website and writing the project introduction post in accordance with the guidelines. It took me some time to figure out website settings and get the hang of using WordPress as I have never used it before. We also worked on writing design presentation slides together.

Unfortunately I do not have much progress on Lucas-Kanade this week since I had an on-site interview. I’m behind now, but fortunately I have much more free time this upcoming week so I will be able to dedicate a lot of time to Lucas-Kanade. Since the end of next week is my deadline for completing Lucas-Kanade, if I do not get it by then, I will move on to setting up the Raspberry Pi since the piezo circuit is a more crucial part of the project.

I will get Lucas-Kanade working by next week.

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Introduction and Project Summary

Intro to InteracTable

Have you ever been frustrated by having to look over someone’s shoulder during a group meeting because your laptop died? Unhappy with Google Drive’s Terms of Service? Wanted more space to work on? Then InteracTable is the right device for you!

By using the InteracTable, you will be able to turn any table top into your own laptop screen. You will be able to resize your working surface area, and best of all, you will be able to collaborate with teammates on any table.

In order to create the InteracTable, we will connect a projector to a user’s laptop, and the laptop screen will be projected on to a flat table top. We plan to use computer vision (coded using MATLAB) to track a red dot that we place on a user’s finger. In order to capture this information we will use a small webcam to send information back to the laptop for processing. To confirm user tap, we plan to use a piezo sensor connected to a Raspberry Pi. For this proof of concept prototype, we will constrain the system to work with only one finger.

The InteracTable will be a competitive product because unlike a capacitive touch screen table, it will be low-cost and portable.  While this is a proof of concept, we hope to revolutionize the way people collaborate by creating the InteracTable.

 Project Proposal Slides