Team Status Report for April 8th, 2023

This week, Justin worked on soldering the components so they are more stable when attached to the pool cue. He also worked on integration by making it so his data can be printed to a txt file, which can then be read by our other subsystems. Jimmy and Devank spent the week fixing bugs in their integration, like the CV system detecting the projection on the table as actual pool balls. Devank also made some edits to his shot calculation to make it more accurate, such as having it target the center of each pocket instead of the back, which meant some shots couldn’t be made as the walls were in the way. Currently our largest risk is with the lighting of the pool table. If there are significant shadows, it causes the CV system to fail to properly detect the balls, which breaks the whole system. Our solution to this is to add LED strips to the frame, which will prevent outside light sources from interfering with our CV detection. As stated above, we needed a stable, constant lighting system on the frame to make sure the CV functioned properly. This cost us $25. We have not updated our schedule.