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This week we met on Monday (03/23) to discuss what to do about the microphones and we finally ordered four of the cheap adafruit microphones as only one of our devices will display automatic mode. I worked on downloading the gesture dataset. We met on …
This week we began implementing based on our restructured plan. Neeti is working on the gesture classifier, Shrutika is working on modelling the physical platform animation with Simulink and Gauri is working on the control loop. We also ordered and received the mics. So we …
This week we met on Monday to research what to do about the microphones and finally ordered 4 cheaper omnidirectional ones. We decided that making baffles around these would be a better idea than buying 4 super expensive cardioid singing mics. On Wednesday we met with Professor Sullivan and Jens to go over our progress, SOW and Design Review Report. On Friday we met again to discuss our individual progress’ so far and work together. I worked this week on planning and writing the outline and pseudocode of the main control loop.
Overall, we seem to be on track to demo-ing manual mode by demo week. Next week, once Neeti finishes the classifier, I can integrate that with the control loop. It might be tricky to get outputs sent from the control loop running on the RPi to Simulink running on the laptop so that might not be ready for demo but I hope to figure out next week at least how that can happen.
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 …
This was our first Zoom quarantine week! I think we managed quite well taking everything into account. This week was mostly us rehashing our project plan. We spent 10:30-12:30 on Monday and Wednesday during what would be our normal class time discussing what changes we …
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! 🙂
We had our first zoom meeting on Monday (03/16)! We used the 10:30-12:30 lab time to begin to think about how we would transition our project to accommodate the remote nature of the class. We discussed which parts of the project we could keep the …
We spent a lot of time the week before break finalizing the design review report, which I think was really useful to force us to think about every decision we were making – and also got us to decide on parts for real and order …
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 to set up the CV things and networking.
Sadly COVID-19…
I don’t think we have exact guidance on how to move forward considering the rest of the semester is remote, but I guess this week it will become more clear as we start to rework our project…maybe a virtual rotating platform? Like an animated platform that looks like the one we were planning on building.
This week I was mostly not in Pittsburgh because of spring break and a couple of onsite interviews. Last Wednesday, I worked on installing OpenCV on the RPis after we received our cameras. Apart from that, we had our design review presentations and spent a …