This week Fly Bye is back from spring break! The team has been working this week to prepare for Prototype Inspection Day, which is next Tuesday. Over the next few weeks, Fly Bye is beginning to wrap up the project and fix up any loose ends.

This past week Fly Bye designed and ordered a printed circuit board that will be used in the final design of the image-based trap. This will make the system look more professional and help the electronics fit more securely in the trap.

Fly Bye was able to make progress in the image processing. A Google Apps script will process any images uploaded to Google Drive and immediately send them to the machine learning model, which will identify any fly images.

Prior to spring break, Fly Bye was able to collect 600 images of flies. This week, Fly Bye wrote a script to augment the data by flipping all the existing images. This means now the model will have 1200 images. At this point, almost all the images have been annotated.

The next few images are of the data collection process and the live flies the USDA sent the team.

Next week, Fly Bye plans to present updates at the Prototype Inspection Day, continue to collect data, and solder the components onto the printed circuit board.