After items were picked up, I wanted to set up the camera and Jetson together to make sure they work, since initializing devices can often have compatibility problems. The first step was to flash the SD card with the image for the Linux operating system. Then, I inserted the microSD into the Jetson and connected the Jetson to a monitor. There were several issues with setup on the first attempt, related to running “sudo apt-get update.” This required me to flash the microSD, and to not update. I downloaded a demo program with “DepthAI” (which we likely will not use on the first attempt of writing code), and connected the camera. The result was a (somewhat) functional object detection. Currently, I am on track, since I anticipated setup to take more debugging efforts. Now, we can begin to run some smaller sample computer vision programs to determine the accuracy of card detection. I can also start profiling different methods of card detection, such as machine learning (which can usually guarantee a higher accuracy) and computer vision (which can be simpler but with no guarantee of accuracy).
