This week I mainly worked on the design review presentation slides and reviewing our system specification. I added more details to our block diagram that shows how each component of the project interacts with one another. I also modified some of our use case requirements after considering the expectations of our users. We are currently on schedule but hopefully in the next week, we actually try and test out some of the hardware and software that we decided on. Along with that, I hope to receive helpful feedback from my presentation that will help steer us in the right direction.
Team Status Report for 2/12
The most significant risks that we came across over the past few weeks were figuring out the focus of our project and how exactly we would be able to recommend outfits to the user in a suitable fashion. We have managed both risks by centralizing our project on outfit recommendations rather than our original plan to include heart rate monitors and daily schedule reminders on our mirror. We have also decided to push through with the idea of having users take pictures of their own clothes and input it into a database which would then be used for outfit recommendations based on a color wheel. This makes the overall project much more straightforward and simple.
We have made some changes to our use-case requirements and system spec after our project proposal presentation. Using the students’ feedback, we decided to lower the time it takes for and outfit recommendation from 10s to 4s. This change was necessary and viable because we were successfully able to acquire the Jetson Xavier and because we realized that 10s may be too long to maintain the user’s attention. We have also decided to switch from using OpenCV with Python to C++. This change was necessary because our team realized that the documentation available is similar for both languages and C++ is much faster in terms of runtime which will directly help our use case requirement of fast outfit recommendations.
We have also started to think about how to connect our mobile app to the mirror for turning on/off the mirror and we realized that the Jetson Xavier that we received from the 18-500 inventory already has a built-in WIFI+BT chip that we can use which is very useful and saves us a lot of money and time.
Jeremy’s Status Report for 2/12
This week I was mostly working on our team’s proposal presentation slides. Our project is still in the early stages, so I also went ahead and polished some of our preliminary ideas so that we could design our project in a much more modular fashion.
This includes: attaching white LED lights around our mirror to fix the variable of minimizing shadows for each of our users, being able to analyze solid colors, having a tag to each of the clothes that the user fills out to make it easier to grab the correct matching clothes from the database.
In doing so, we were able to set an MVP for our project. I believe our project is on schedule, but we should be aware of the possible complications that could come from a new tech stack. Next week, I hope to be able to test out some of the software tools that our team is planning to use for the color detection and come up with an overall design strategy for our project by deciding on which tools we plan to utilize.