Accomplishments This Week
Firstly, our hardware arrived this week. I was able to set up the RPI 5 that we are going to use as our central computer. With the Design Review coming up for next week, I also worked with Jason and Siyuan to finalize the details of the design, and talked over some hypothetical questions we would get asked during the presentation. Outside of these main goals, I assisted Siyuan and Jason with their Camera/Barcode modules as completing the setup of the RPI5 was blocked by actually having a mouse and keyboard. We devised a method of acquiring images in focus for the expiration date, which involve taking a buffer of images +-1 second of acquiring the barcode number. OCR will then go through the buffer of the images to determine which one has the highest classification rate, and will use those values. Overall, a very productive week.
Project Schedule and Progress
My progress is a little behind schedule, as we struggled to set up the RPI due to not having a mouse/keyboard to set it up with. We were able to get this issue resolved and I am trying to get back on schedule.
Goals for the Next Week
I plan on starting to develop the MVP software for the center node this coming week. Edge node software development will also happen, but the task is blocked until there is more progress on Jason’s camera hardware progress and Siyuan’s barcode reader progress.