Our current focus has primarily been on getting the devices to work/ communicate properly to the Raspberry Pi. The thermal printer being able to print correct card designs correctly has been critical since we need to have these designs finalized to begin training our model. Card recognition is a main component of our project, so we are a little behind schedule in this part. We hope to get most of the designs to be able to be printed via the Arduino Uno to the thermal printer. This switch was made due to the abundance in documentation and user-friendly IDE and libraries. (Before, we were using minicom on the Raspberry Pi to send ascii files to the printer.) For now, the Arduino Uno is our backup plan for the Demo in the case we aren’t able to use the Raspberry Pi to print. We aim to get the 52 cards to successfully print with suits this next week.
In terms of other devices, the keyboard and LCD screen device drivers have been written, staying on schedule for this week. The plan is to work on interfacing with the camera next week.