Team Status Report for 2/27/2021

Overall, we are on track. The biggest risk for our project at the moment is if we mess up some part of our hardware and need to reorder different parts and try again. We decided to mitigate this by buying a couple of parts as they are cheap. Also, we wanted to make sure we always had backup hardware in case something happened to our final. This way, we could always roll back to the most recent version. By the end of next week, we will have ordered our parts and started to put together the hardware.

No major system changes have been made. In a team vote, we decided to move away from OpenPose and use OpenCV instead due to higher accuracy and a lighter-weight system.

This week, we worked on figuring out our system design and what parts to buy.

For our system design, we finalized how things were going to communicate with each other, how the user would interact with the system, and what software we would be using.

For buying parts, we looked into different functionality we needed and did research on how other people implemented similar ideas, how different parts were compatible with each other, and the cost o the parts. We found links to the items we wanted to buy and compiled them together, ensuring that we had everything to fulfill our requirements.