- This week, I spent a lot of time finalizing the final project presentation slides, as well as help my teammate Doreen prepare for her presentation.
- In the previous week, I finished the essential hardware components of the project so I moved over to the software side to help Surafel implement some aspects of the software. The team found a new Python library called facial_recognition that seems to have a much higher accuracy than our current code. Surafel worked on initial testing of the library and I worked on adding code to check users in and saving their face if they were not in the system. I also implemented checkout and the deletion of their face after checkout.
- Afterwards, I worked on the CSS of the web application, cleaning it up for a smoother looking final interface.
- I am slightly ahead of schedule for my own personal work of working on the hardware components. But, I am now pivoting to help with software. I would like to start completely wrapping the entire project up within a day or two, but I am not completely sure if its possible because we might need 3-4 days for finalizing software. The base functionality of the project is finished and I think most of the stuff we are doing now is extra (such as a possible buzzer on the hardware side, or user check-in/check-out logs with manual checkout on the software side). At this point a lot of work will have to be put in to make sure it gets done on time!
- Next week I hope to clean up the entire project, finish the final deliverables like the video, and poster, and be done with the semester (and my time at CMU!)
Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2024 | Doreen Valmyr, Ryan Lin, Surafel Tsadik