This week I compiled the parts list since I will be in charge of the hardware connection of the LED system to the board. This entailed figuring out which LEDs to use since we would need to be able to address the lights and make them different colors. With these constraint, I chose the SK6812 strip LEDs which I will control a Raspberry Pi 3. I also finished the Project Proposal Presentation and script, which I will be in charge of presenting. This meant that I also finished creating the schedule for the timeline of milestones in creating the LED system. Since this will reply on receiving which coordinates to light up which colors from the chess engine, I will first start by just connecting the LEDs to a grid and working on parsing a pseudo-output file into the LED addresses.
My progress in on schedule because our team’s deadlines for this week was the parts list, project proposal presentation, and gantt chart which we were all able to finish.
Next week I hope to submit the parts list to actually order because our team is fairly certain that we will be needing the strip LEDs and we would like to work on the chess engine, LED system, and computer vision component all in parallel. I hope to start getting the code set up for controlling the LEDs as well, but my main focus will be preparing to present our project proposal.