The most significant risk we face in regards to the hardware component of our project involves the rotation mechanism for the hardware. We have faced some challenges regarding faulty components in the past week that has delayed the testing for the motor. We found out from testing our motor that the motor driver may not provide enough voltage to drive the motor, causing the motor to only vibrate, rather than fully rotate. As a result, we have ordered a new motor driver and asked a peer to use theirs so that in the following week we can get back on track with testing the component and fully assembling the rack. In addition to this, we need to complete testing our wireless transceiver.
The system requirements have stayed the same. Similarly, our schedule has is the same as previous weeks.
For the software, there is now a way to register faces! While the system is running, it is keeping track of the most recent frames it has read. When a new face is detected, it will save those frames in the system and then retrain the recognition model with those new frames included. Works ok for now, and it will hopefully work better after tuning the parameters of the recognition model to get better results.
This week, we painted and finished the bottom portion of the stand. As for the six-pronged component at the top, we attached a slip ring and load cells and further tested the wiring for the load cells to ensure that they could capture weight changes. Here are images depicting our current progress with the hardware component.
