This week, each of us worked on our individual components to present on the Interim Demo. Sarah finished the fruit/ flower detection and improved it so that it can find the most common types of flowers and fruits by working with the most common flower and fruit colors. Kanon worked on deploying the website onto EC2 and conducted a survey to test the website UI with 5 people. Hiroko adjusted the watering tube to distribute water more evenly to the plants, started adjusting the wires and cords to figure out the specific layout of the electrical components, and did some research on junction boxes on that would be suitable for encompassing the electrical components.
We made some changes to our schedule this week to account for the fact that Sarah will setup the CV application on the greenhouse on April 25th to integrate the Raspberry Pi and the camera into the greenhouse hardware system. We moved the individual system tests to come before the physical integration of the Raspberry Pi and the camera.
We are taking some risks by using the last available week to integrate the Raspberry Pi and the camera into the greenhouse hardware system since we will not have much time to debug or order new components even though it will be an important part of our greenhouse. We will try to test our individual systems as thoroughly as possible before we try to integrate all of the parts, so we can avoid finding bugs last minute.
In our schedule, we designated some slack time for next week, since we will need to prepare for the interim demo and work on the ethics assignment individually. We will also catch up on some unfinished individual work that we have next week so that we can start testing and integrating the systems the week after.