Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2023 Project by Anita Ma, Kelly Woicik, Anna Gerchanovsky
What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). At this point, our project was close …
What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready? As of now, we have fully integrated our system and don’t have many significant risks left. However, we do have …
What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
I spent this week preparing for the final presentation, updating some of the style on our web application, and modifying a midi file a song to suit our needs.
I gave the final presentation this week and spent a few hours polishing up the slides as well as practicing the points I wanted to hit while still staying within the 12 minute cutoff. I wanted to ensure that our struggles as well as successes could be understood by all.
Additionally, I spent some time this week updating the style of our website as we have been working with a bare bones style for quite some time. Currently, I have updated both the registration and login pages (as seen below).
Finally, I found a midi file backing track for the song “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey. This backing track was very high quality and suited our needs, but finding the melody proved to be a very difficult task. I ended up finding one that was mostly correct, but in a different key and off time. In order to join these 2 separate midi tracks together, I had to buffer the vocals to line up with the backing track as well as transpose the vocals down and edit them for correctness. This took most of my time this week, but we now have .wav files.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
According to the Gantt chart, I have finished my personal tasks and am on slack duty. Therefore, I’m perfectly on schedule.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Next week I hope to continue updating the style of our website as well as get some UI feedback.
What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready? A large risk we had faced, and managed, for a while, was the integration of the frontend javascript audio recording …
What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). A big change we had in the …
What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
Anna and Kelly got the front to back end pipeline working! We are now figuring out the formatting, but I also integrated my part into their system.
Along with quantitative feedback, I’ve added qualitative feedback into the algorithm that keeps track of trendlines.
My “real-time” feedback is now auto formatted into a JSON format and now Anna is going to take that info and integrate that into our final demo.
Last but not least, we worked on the final presentation powerpoint. Almost there!
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
Now we are cooking!
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Final project done.
What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). I spent this week, coming up with …
What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready? We are still running into some issues with linking the back and front end systems. Data is seemingly getting corrupted …
What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
Sadly, this week we did not make as much progress as we would have liked. We began the week by having our interim demo, which went well overall. We had communication between audio recording in the front end, with pitch detection in the backend. We also had demonstrations of how we would like our game to look eventually. However, the largest missing piece of our project was, and still is, the fact that we are unable to correctly read wav files passed in from JavaScript in our python context.
Kelly identified that the wav files, as read and saved in python, are distorted, basically sounding like noise. However, we are able to render our wav recordings in JavaScript, where they sound exactly as they should. This leads us to believe that the issue is with how we read the bitstream that gets passed to the Django backend. We have tried exploring two main avenues to get around this:
We have had trouble finding literature on this, so dealing with these file formats has been all I have been able to do this week. I reached out to Kelly and I’s former Web Applications professor, and we hope to be able to get some advice or guidance. So far, he has recommended sub-processes. We have begun researching them, but are unsure if they will help us deal with our issue.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
We are behind schedule. We were hoping to finish audio integration this week, but were not able to. We have a couple avenues to keep exploring, and we may cut into slack while trying to figure this out.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
I hope to finish backend frontend integration next week. If there is extra time, I want to add the after game feedback screen, or more song options. However, those are not top priority.
What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). As reiterated in Anna’s report, we have …