Maddie Status Report (3/8/25)

Over the last two weeks, most of my time went towards working on the design report, as well as continuing to work on the image stitching algorithm. Because of some travel hiccups, I did not get everything that I planned in my last status report completed. That being said, I largely have a program which can take in a folder of ordered images and stitch them together horizontally and vertically to create one cohesive image! The shortcoming of this week was that I didn’t get to spend as much time thinking about image stitching validation as I would have liked. This is a goal for next week, as well as beginning to write code which automatically captures images with adequate overlap during a livestream process. I plan to do this by calculating the dimensions of the camera’s view based on the z-direction’s position, and using this figure along with the boat’s speed to determine the necessary image-capture interval. 

On the other side of the project, I’ve continued to look into the spool / wind guide component of the project, and hope to have these 3D prints submitted to techspark by the end of the week. These parts will be largely adapted from Thingiverse parts, but will need to be significantly modified and rescaled as most open source parts are intended for 3D printer filament, which is a significantly larger spool and smaller “thread” than our cable. 

Overall, I am a little behind where I would like to be. That being said, I’ve been able to block out adequate time this week to make up for being able to do less than I planned since the last report 🙂