Over the past week, I have been spending most of my time testing out the overall system. This involves running the calibration and translation phase. My main job has been to find issues with the system through extensive testing and brainstorm ideas for how to fix them. Since we just got the new motor (that powers the vertical movement), I have been spending quite a bit of time with testing that motor and altering values to ensure it moves the best.
I also helped develop the user survey for us to find the “magic curve” and have been helping to run these tests. These take about 30 minutes per person to talk through the system with them, test out the 9 different speed combinations, and get their feedback. Other action items this week were adding the new camera into the system (that has day and night vision). This camera is more sensitive than my laptop camera that we have been testing on, so I have been testing values out and altering the pitch and yaw calculations to get this set-up working.
Another improvement is that I added sounds to the calibration phase to make it more user-friendly. I was originally working on a graphic to display on the projection when the user was undergoing calibration, but I found this to be too difficult in the given time frame because of threading/blocking issues. Now, the system dings every time the lock gesture is detected to alert the user to look at the projection. I feel on schedule and have enough time to continue to test out the system and increase the robustness/accuracy.