Team Status Report for 3/6/2021

This week, we met numerous times to create our design presentation, refine our project components, and submit a budget proposal to obtain hardware. Our most significant risk remains the same as last week’s, which is time delays with turnaround and shipping. We plan to mitigate this risk by aiming to get our hardware as soon as possible and performing tasks in parallel to reduce idle time. No significant changes were made to our existing system or schedule. We did narrow down our camera modules (OV9281 and IMX219), for which we have filled out a purchase request form. In addition, we were notified that Azure would not be a possible cloud hosting provider for our web display, and so we will have to use AWS. This does not pose any significant changes to our project, as both platforms are suitable for our web app. Finally, we did make a minor change to our shoebox design, as we have placed an internal extension to make the cards flat and consistent when they are dispensed. This will enhance our image quality and help with image preprocessing/classification.