This week I drew the cad drawing for the chinese chess pieces. There are 11 different kind of pieces with different chinese characters on them, we also plan to put the english translation of each chinese character on them, so that it’s easier for user to learn. I have all 11 pieces drawn out, there are 3 of them that I still need to refine a bit because they are in Traditional Chinese and the font I’m using doesn’t support that, e.g. chariot.
The next step about these pieces is to print them out, preferably after we have chosen the size of the board so I can test if the details in the CAD drawing can be printed out nicely. Also, computer vision testing will need those printed pieces as well.
I also started on the computer vision part. I have to learn it from scratch so it’s taking me some time. But I have started writing code and will be testing it out with the camera, chess pieces, and the board later.
I did a portion of the chess board design by myself, but I will need to discuss with my group members more next monday to finalize some details.
I am on schedule with the chess pieces design and the computer vision part. I am a tiny bit behind on the chess board design part but can definitely catch up next Monday. I will be printing out chess pieces, cutting out chess board, and doing more of the computer vision part next week.