Ashley’s Status Report for 11/9

This week, I spent most of the time familiarizing myself with Jetson and working on integrating it with the Arduino, which took a lot longer than expected. I ran into some issues while setting up the working environment for Jetson, because I was completely new to how it works. Also, I ran into some issues while trying to run the hardware code that I have previously written on Jetson. The serial communication, which worked when I connected the Arduino with the USB port on my laptop, did not work when I ran it with Jetson. This could be an issue with the setup or an error in the code that I need to fix, and I would need to do more research and debugging on this. Other than that, I also looked into the previous work done on the Jetson that contains the scripts for the computer vision and the camera capture functionality, in order to familiarize myself with these before integrating them with the other components of the hardware. While I wanted to get much more work done other than the Jetson setup and debugging, I had an extremely busy week with some unexpected events outside of school, which barely gave me any time to work on the project. As such I am slightly behind schedule, because my goal was to have the serial communication working on the Jetson by this week. Since I expect to have more time next week, I hope to figure out the error in the serial communication and have it working before the interim demo.