First Zoom meeting today!

• Met with Jens and clarified some logistical things.
• Talked a little about how we might refactor our project design and which parts can and should be done remotely.
• Emailed Professor Sullivan our availability.
• Plan to work on the project as usual during original class times (Mon, Wed) and have our check-in with the professor/TA on either Wed or Fri.
• Currently thinking of having some sort of animated rotating platform (built with SolidWorks) and “prove” that our pieces work by rotating animation correctly.  Manual mode should be demo-able with this method.  Classifiers can still be built.
• Still working out details of automatic mode.  Things have to change because getting and integrating all hardware is unfeasible remotely.

• Worked for many many many hours yesterday and today to finish writing and format the design review report.
• Discussed plans for this week (before spring break) – we want to begin work on the ML model for gesture detection and begin manufacturing the data sets for training and testing.
• Parts have been approved and will arrive sometime this week hopefully.
• Professor Sullivan gave us the idea of using cardioid directional microphones and use parabolic baffles to increase accuracy of sound localization and prevent sound from the phone speaker from interfering with sound from the people speaking in the room.
• We will be making the March 14th status reports this week instead (since we don’t know how much work we will be able to do over spring break).