Jenny Han’s Status Report for 4/10/2021

This week I worked on the pen tracking algorithm. I found an error in our implementation and updated it so it would integrate over the last 10 data points collected by the IMU. This still had some inaccuracy, so we decided to get a new IMU (arrived today) and will attempt to work on that more the next week.

Secondly, I worked on finding an OpenCV solution for the pen tracking. I think with the unreliablity of the pen accelerometer data, if we combined a software element it would make the overall implementation more reliable (since there are more inputs). However, I was having some issue finding a reliable open source for it. I looked into the MediaPipe software as well as OpenCV software. I think if I cannot find a reliable source for object tracking, we could use a laser instead of a pen against the wall for a similar effect.

Finally, I worked on the GUI of the project and am using TKinter for the calibration, about, home and help pages.