Team Status Update for April 4

What we did:

Abha worked on the face display on the hardware side, updated the CAD files to reflect the design changes for the head, and wrote code to move motors via a Raspi. Ashika wrote code to display the sentence output on a graphic screen (which will later be shown on the text display) and created templates. Jade finished getting the audio input and output working on the pi, and also started working on getting the ML algorithm running on the raspberry pi.

Major design changes:

When Abha worked on displaying eyes through the text displays, we realized that an important part of being able to show expressions is the way that the mouth is shaped (smile, frown, neutral, etc). With just the eyes changing shape, it is really hard to discern sentiments.

Since the goal of the eyes display was to be able to change the eye shape to show sentiments, we needed to change the scope of this aspect so that we could accomplish our goal of showing sentiments. Now, we will be having a full face display, that displays eyes, nose, and mouth. We will be able to update the eyes and mouth to better display sentiments.

Risk management:

The risks haven’t changed since last week.