Juan Cortes, Luis Ortega, Lillie Widmayer – Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2021
This week our team met to work on visualizing our design and finding compatible components to go with them. We have created our initial bill of materials, with an estimated $150.00 worth of materials, which leaves us plenty in case of unforeseen issues.
Additionally, we began working on setting up our OpenCV environment, as of now we just wanted to see how the edge detection would work for our project. We have a basic implementation which can do edge detection on a live video feed.
This week involved attending all proposal presentations for section E. Aside from in class work, my group spent significant time working on a design and a parts list. After searching through components we currently own, components the department has ready to lend, and searching online we have pieced together a list of compatible pieces we hope to order soon. Also worked on an initial look into OpenCV and using it for piece detection within our project.
Our initial schedule had us doing a lot early on, in order to account for falling behind or tasks taking longer than expected. This extra time we gave ourselves will be used this upcoming week as we hope to begin setting up our raspberry pi environment. We will also continue with our initial plan for this week of working on the Design Review Slides and Report.
This week I worked alongside the rest of the team to decide on our project and scope. We then set time aside to meet and work on our Proposal Presentation. I also took time aside to set up and organize the website, along with set up our Google Sheets gantt chart, which a screenshot of can be found in our proposal presentation slide deck.
This upcoming week I plan to set some time aside for determining a bill of parts, and to have these ordered by the end of the week. I also plan on doing some preliminary readings and research to help guide our design choices further on.