Our team made good progress this week on various elements of our project. We now have two masks for rotten and good bananas respectively that we will use to calculate the percentage of rotten parts in a banana. We also have started researching our secondary ML solution and looked at AlexNet as of now. We had a meaningful discussion with Prof. Tamal and our TA Uzair who gave us the great idea of using live feed or burst pictures instead of periodically taking pictures which we talked about more as a team and decided would be better for our timing concerns on our conveyor belt. We also know that building a conveyor belt is an important part of our testing and so we have started building out the conveyor belt. We made good progress today in the woodshop. We managed to find free wood pieces that worked for us and we have cut all the parts necessary for our conveyor belt, including the wooden base, the wooden side stands, the PVC rollers. Next, we have to hook up the motor to the PVC rollers with woodwork and we have a few ideas on how to do that. So we are on schedule for our project as of now. Kush is going to also work more on the Nano early this coming week and Ishita K. and S. should have a good rottenness detector using masks developed as well as started on the ML plan. Our conveyor belt should be ready by mid-coming week.
