This week, I have primarily focused on fixing physical connections and making sure that everything works fine. We now have a second battery that we plan to attach to the depth camera so we have more battery life to support both the camera and the raspberry pi. I have also planed out some exterial design, we will be cutting out a piece of black table cloth to cover up large electronic parts such as the raspberry pi, the arduino, the breadboard etc. Since our project is supposed to wearable, we will spend some time next week to make it visually attractive as well.
I am currently also working on a python visualization code for the belt. The python code will communicate with the raspberry pi on an usb chord using serial communication, and naively receive inputs and visualize the information. I have yet to decide what additional features I want to add to help us demo the belt, but at the moment I am planing to display the reading for the six sensors, the vibration level for the six vibration motors as a starting point. Passing in depth camera information might be difficult since frames would take a lot longer to process then numbers, and it might slow down the raspberry pi which is not what we really want.
Next week, I will be finishing up the python visualization, finishing up our external decorations, and conduct more testing to make sure that our project would perform well .