Significant Risks
- Background substitution in OpenCV adds a lot of latency and delay in the movement seen on screen.
- Orientation of IR LEDs seem to be a problem. The LEDs apparently need to be pointed directly at the camera and this is unrealistic considering the game consists of swiping across the camera (we can’t expect the player to keep the LED pointed at the camera perfectly).
Changes Made
- Use regular LEDs since the latency is much better (no need to do gray-scaling and use the IR LEDs as white LEDs if we can simply use color LEDs). The intensity of colored LEDs are also stronger so the camera will be able to pick it up at larger distances
- We are considering running the whole Fruit Ninja game on the RaspberryPi but we have not yet finalized this
Schedule
A little behind on schedule, but will be caught up by the time we arrive at the demo since we plan to have a basic game and the glove fully built.