Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2020
Progress
This week I began the building of the glove for my project. I soldered the buttons to the wires and connected them to the Rpi and worked on the Bluetooth connection to my laptop.
Plan for demo next week
My plan for the demo is to have a working glove that plays different tones when each button is pressed, but not integrated with Ableton live yet.
Schedule
I am on track and got my plan for the demo approved by professor and TA.
Progress
I have been been quite limited in my ability to build the glove due to the circumstances, and have created a personal statement of work, which is attached. as SOW.
Schedule
I am running behind and working to catch up, but ordering lab materials on may take longer than normal since many suppliers are shut down.
Progress: this week I finalized my bill of materials for the glove component of our project and placed the first couple purchase orders. I also started writing code that the Rpi will run to process button inputs.
My progress is on track so far. I am planning on helping to assist my other team members in algorithm development if I have some extra time.
I would like to finish the code that reads GPIO inputs from the buttons this week and place the remaining purchase orders for the glove (glove itself, buttons).
Progress
This week I finalized the design for the glove component of our project. Below is the system level diagram that I created.
It took longer than expected to finish the design phase of my portion because I made sure to be extra careful to ensure that the system would work. Not using a resistor to connect the buttons to the GPIO pins of the pi means that these buttons will essentially be active low, since they are connected to ground. In the code that I will write to register the presses I will just have to account for that fact.
Schedule/Deliverables
I have made some adjustments to my overall schedule. Now that my design is done, I will be compiling a formal bill of materials and placing an order this week. I have already looked ahead at lead times for some of the more important components and things should not take longer than one week to arrive.
CV studio attempts to create a user friendly music development platform for gesture based music creation. Using an x-box Kinect camera system along with a buttoned glove with additional features, this project intends to allow users to generate instrumental sounds with basic movements such as a clap or a stomp. Our project will be connected to an existing music production software that allows users to save short segments of music and tune their work to their liking. One central goal of the project is to be able to capture five different gestures with accuracy of 90%.
Progress
Last week I began designing the glove component of our project. I finalized a high level system diagram for the component and made sure that the hardware components are sufficient for the intended use case. I also assisted team members in obtaining camera hardware and connecting the Kinect equipment to our computers. I also started an outline for our design review presentation and began working on the slides.
Schedule
I am making good progress on the glove design, but the original schedule had noted that I should have ordered parts for the glove last week. I am planning on submitting part orders this week and devoting more time than I originally intended to the design phase of the project.
Next Week
Next week I plan on finalizing the design of the glove component of our project and putting together slides for the design review.