Neeti’s Status Report for 03/21

This week we met on Monday (03/16) to float around ideas for how to transition our project to accommodate the new remote setup such as using an animation instead of a physical platform and motor as the output of our control loop. We then briefly met with Jens to get checked off and gain some clarity on the new expectations for our project and we learned that as long as we are able to prove that our software components are able to control the hardware components as promised, we do not need to actually get a hold of some of the hardware parts.

On Wednesday (03/18), we further dived into how we would transition the project and split up the work. We also came up with a list of questions to ask professor Sullivan in our meeting, about the general direction of the course, the expectations for the SoW document, as well as the availability of parts and TechSpark.

I spent some time researching guides, models, and datasets for our hand gesture classifier on Thursday (03/19).

On Friday, we met to discuss the next steps for the classifier and decided we will need to change the gestures to rotate the device in manual mode to fit existing hand gesture datasets. We also did some research on mics to use and after consulting professor Sullivan, we decided to go with cheaper omnidirectional microphones with baffles. Finally, we worked on creating our SoW document and will update it with a new Gantt chart and block diagram before we submit it this weekend.

It has been interesting transitioning to zoom meetings and I am hopeful that we can still create something cool that we are proud of! 🙂