What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?
This week, I worked on creating the design to mount the solenoids above the piano, and worked more on object detection. I took lots of measurements of the piano and used online specs for the solenoids to figure out a design and created it in Fusion360. I will attach an image once the issue with uploading photos is fixed, but for now, I put the image in the slack. I exported DXF’s and will cut it all out and put it together on Monday with the acrylic that I picked up last Wednesday. I also spent more time trying to figure out how to get the symbol detection working, and had very limited success — one method that I tried was using template matching, but was scaling the image until it was greater than the screen, in order to account for different scales of the symbol – was taking too much time and causing a lag in the video. Another detection was only able to detect it about 5% of the time. Finally, I tried some shape detection and that was also having a very hard time figuring out where even the star was. I have been a bit frustrated with this, but I may try to make another attempt at creating a Haas Cascade after doing more reading.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
I am on schedule, using the updated Gantt chart from last week.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Putting together the mounting system and getting the symbol detection working so that I can shift from color detection to detecting symbols.