As per last week, the camera we ordered still hasn’t arrived. While concerning, our MVP camera will still serve us well, as even though it doesn’t have IR capabilities or a very high resolution sensor, it is still more than good enough to demonstrate the functionality of the project as a whole.
There are no changes to the overall design of the project. However, we have made a slight change with using AWS Rekognition rather than Sagemaker for verifying low confidence matches. This was done since AWS Rekognition is specifically designed for OCR which is our main use case of the cloud model, which also makes it easier to work with. The costs this incurs are minimal since we did not waste time or resources on the Sagemaker portion other than basic testing. As for schedule, we are currently testing both the ML and camera right now, with ML tests ongoing and camera tests taking place tomorrow before the slides are assembled.