Shrutika’s Status Report for 04/11

Minor issues for manual mode so it took longer than expected, but still making significant progress.

This week we decided to switch to just using pygame because it was much simpler to integrate, I already knew how to use it, and Matlab was causing a lot of issues. The pygame animation doesn’t look super aesthetic right now, but it’s functional and I plan to make it visually better later, when our sensors and other features are working.

We have made several changes to our gesture classifier but it is working (mostly), and we’re working on collecting a better dataset of gesture images now from our friends and families. More on this in our team update.

Since I have all of the hardware, for the past 2 days I have been working on setting up the pis on my home network, and getting them set up with the camera. We are able to capture video using the pi/pi camera, and now we just need to connect and feed those images to our neural net.

I just started connecting the microphones – TBD on how that works..