What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or
photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient
effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
This week I ordered the LED strips, Raspberry Pi 4, and power source that I need to build the LED light up system. I also wrote some Arduino code that to index into the LEDs using a pre-existing library for these specific LEDs. I hope to test them next week now that they have been delivered. I also discussed the communication protocol between our different subsystem more meticulously with my team and landed on specific protocols/formats like receiving the state of the board as an FEN string instead of coordinates and having the LED light up system communicate directly with the computer vision instead of the chess engine. We also worked on the Design Presentation Slides and talked more about the details like what the different colors of LEDs mean and other details.
Our progress is on schedule.
Next week I hope to test the LED indexing code and tweak it to correctly work for the 9×10 setup of the board. I also hope to get started on the starting and ending sequence code where at it will highlight the different zones of the board like the river and the opponent’s side and player’s side and also flash the LEDs upon a win.