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This week I mostly focused on component selection. I’ve selected all of parts we will need and have an idea of what all of the hardware work is going to look like moving forward. I think the majority of the electronics work is going to be with the battery management Read more…
Finalizing InFrame’s Perception Stack This week, I worked mainly on finalizing the CV design and on doing some research regarding benchmarks for the Jetson Nano’s performance on popular Deep Learning models. One of the biggest discussions that we’ve had so far is about the computing capabilities that we’ll need on Read more…
This week, I worked to condense and underscore the extent of our design work to date, and delivered the Design Proposal presentation to our fellow peers, guiding TA, and experienced professor. Primary objectives for this presentation include: 1) communicating the depth of detailed design work completed, 2) posing a medium Read more…
This week, our entire team focused on streamlining and better structuring the design process with sights set on the Monday Design Review presentation. With this objective in mind, we conducted further research into the feasibility of different designs, parts, algorithms, and computer vision models, with an additional importance placed on Read more…
Documentation: Use Cases > Goals > Requirements > Solutions Overview: After recognizing that our team had been moving from one implementation to another, changing our project scope, objectives, specifications with each switch, we made the decision to re-centralize our Concept phase approach with a greater emphasis on goals, as recommended Read more…
Finalizing Design + CV Research This week, we mainly worked together on finalizing the goals, requirements and solutions that drove and will continue to drive the discussion around the design of our system. Some of the key outcomes from these discussions were: Defining metrics and verification methods for the “smoothness” Read more…
This week I worked on a preliminary model for the project. This gave us an idea of what it would look like and how we would be making it. We will be using a combination of 3D printing and laser cutting to make all of the parts we cannot purchase. Read more…
This week we had a lot of design discussions. Ever since our project proposal, we’ve been streamlining the idea that we have for InFrame so that we can focus more on what exactly it is we are trying to achieve: a camera with tracking capabilities. We’ve narrowed down our goal uses Read more…
Form-Factor and Part Design The design of InFrame’s enclosure will play a key role in the appeal of the finalized product. A fair bit of the discussions that we had this week revolved around the form-factor that we wanted InFrame to take. Due to InFrame’s 2 degrees of freedom Read more…
NVIDIA Jetson – FSM Overview: InFrame’s core processing power and camera control will be centralized within the NVIDIA Jetson module. This decision was made with the purpose of bringing the image processing closer to the camera itself and, as a result, cutting down any data transmission delays. Compared to the Read more…