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This week was finalizing everything and filming the video! Finalizing everything mainly involved making the overall control loop and connecting it to the animation, as though it was connected to an actual device/motors in this case. We had created all of the separate pieces in …
We finished our classifier this week (it works!!!) and tested it on the pi with the pi camera. We realized a lot of little things, like how much better the classifier works with a bright light on the person compared to a dim light. I …
I have been playing with the microphones this week. Turns out that macOS Catalina doesn’t support Audacity, and then I tried to connect to an old laptop but the USB ports were broken, and had some other adaptor issues… also it’s super unclear if the …
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 …
This week we made a lot of progress on manual mode – Neeti was working on the gesture classifier and training the models, and I worked on creating the simulation and figuring out how we can hook it up to output from the sensors. Matlab …
We restructured last week, and this week we started working virtually on different parts of our project. It’s nice that most of our parts shipped really quickly, so I think we already have everything that we will need for the rest semester (hopefully). This week …
This week was our first week of virtual meetings. Definitely an adjustment, but I think we have a solid plan going forward. We’re definitely rushed for time since we lost a few weeks with restructuring project virtually and waiting for our parts to ship, but …
The week before spring break we got to work on the project based on the feedback we got from our design review presentation. We actually figured out a lot of details, ordered all of the parts, and got a good amount of work done beginning …
This week we had design review presentations, which was actually really useful. We got a lot of constructive feedback that forced us to really think through each part of our design. The block diagrams we made for the design review especially helped us figure out …
This week I spent a lot of time being able to ssh onto the Raspberry Pis. There’s a lot of guidance online but it differs by network, especially since we wanted to use the school network, and a lot of them assume you have all …