This week I made most of the design presentation slides, and added more details about how the image classifier will work with the sensor classifier to produce the final classification output of recyclable vs. non-recyclable. For a few hours on Saturday, I met with only Jessica (Tate said he was busy, so he did the Team Status Report instead) to come up with how many sensors of each type (inductive, capacitive, etc.) were needed, and how many GPIO pins we would use for each kind of sensor. Jessica and I finalized the placement / position of each type of sensor on the sorting platform (based on sensing ranges, our budget, and the assumption for the minimum object size our trash can will detect). I also added more images for some of the slides for the presentation, based on the feedback the group received from the previous presentation that some of the slides were too empty.
My progress is behind; the mechanism hasn’t been finalized. This week, Jessica asked Tate to finalize certain parts of the mechanism, so we could have it ready for the design presentation, but that hasn’t happened. Tate has been busy, so he hasn’t been able to meet with us or contribute much outside of class. Jessica and I work on the slides during the meetings he misses (typically we update him through text or a later meeting, if he’s available – this week we updated him on the sensor placement we came up with and the number of GPIO pins needed for each sensor; this was necessary because he’ll be presenting next week).
I hope to finalize the other components needed (including the mechanism) for the project, so the team can start buying more parts. I also want to test the sensors that we received.