Team Status Report for 5/1/21

This week, we worked on a new approach for tracking the position of the cursor/pen. Instead of relying on purely accelerometer readings, we decided to use OpenCV to track the user’s hand position and combine it with orientation data from the pen to refine the result. The idea is that the pen will be at some orientation which will offset the tip of the pen from the center of the user’s hand. We were able to use OpenCV to track the center of the user’s hand and we were able to use the orientation data to rotate the cursor around a fixed point. Next, we combined the two into a single functional program. Afterwards, we added three buttons to the arduino. One of them is currently used as a mouse left button, another is used for orientation calibration, and another is currently unmapped.