The most significant risks that pose a threat to the overall completion of our project is the issues that we have been facing with OpenPose. There are a bunch of Github threads that have been made by others who have had problems with setting up OpenPose on their NVIDIA Jetsons yet the documentation is either outdated or incorrect depending on each person who had the issue. Our team faced the same challenges and therefore created a contingency plan where we will be using trtpose now. We plan to wipe the SD card that was in our NVIDIA Xavier and start from scratch by installing trtpose instead of OpenPose.
In terms of the mirror frame that we built, we made a few changes to our initial blueprint of what the frame would look like. Our most recent diagram shows the exact dimensions of each side of our frame and this is what we referred to when constructing the frame in the woodshop downstairs.
None of the scrap wood in the woodshop matched the dimensions of our mirror frame so we had to go to Home Depot to buy wood. This incurred an extra cost of around $50, but it is still well under our budget limit. Another extra component to our mirror design that we thought of after constructing the frame was how we would hold the acrylic two-way mirror in place. The mirror itself is quite bendy and malleable for some reason, so we decided that we would attach triangular pieces to each corner of the frame which the mirror could stick to without falling forwards. A picture is shown below of our finalized frame.
During the construction of the mirror, we got assistance from an instructor in Techspark who was generous enough to give us a few tips about woodworking as well. One obstacle was the fact that Home Depot claimed they sold this wood plank with dimensions of 2in x 10in x 8ft, but the height of the wood was actually shorter than 2 in which resulted in an unforeseen consequence of having to cut the wood again to match the design we wanted to in our original blueprint.
We moved the frame back to our bench, so now that the frame is done, all we need to do now is get the software working and running. We are on schedule in terms of what we have built so far, but we are behind schedule with testing out the software because it hasn’t been set up properly yet. That will be our group’s main focus for the coming week.
