Ashley’s Status Report for 10/5

Last Sunday, I worked on finalizing our design slides for the presentation. Later in the week on Thursday I picked up the ultrasonic sensor that was delivered. I wrote a piece of code in Arduino that detects the distance of the nearby object with the ultrasonic sensor, which can be incorporated in our product later. For now, it prints the distance to the object on the console but later this would trigger the camera to capture an image. I simulated this with the Tinkercad that I was using last week, and once I have all the physical components to connect it with the Arduino I will test to see how accurate our ultrasonic sensor is with the object detection. I also looked more into setting up serial communication between Arduino and Jetson, in order to implement the image capture triggering feature. And since our camera is now delivered (which is not picked up yet), I looked into how the Jetson can capture the image when it receives the signal that an object is detected. I found some Python code online that does a similar job, which does not look too complicated. By next week, along with working on our design report, I hope to start setting up all the hardware components and perform some basic tests.