Welcome to the team Electric Eye blog post for the week of 11/7! The team has been working on some early prototyping and have plenty to look forward to with development. This week we took to creating models for our device and have mockups of our UI that we are ready to get feedback for on the upcoming Prototype Inspection Day (PID). This weeks was also our last lecture for the semester, but there is still lots left to accomplish before we move into winter break!

Decisions Before PID

With the PID for IPPD upcoming soon, our team has made some decisions on hardware/software components that we are interested in using. Mainly, we’ve looked at a few cameras that we see as beneficial for our hazard detection. We looked at smaller, affordable cameras, and are leaning towards the Raspberry Pi camera shown below! The team is looking to mix ribbon and USB cameras on our device since a Raspberry Pi does not have enough ports for each. On the UI side, we’ve looked into a few different frameworks that will best fit our device. Much of our consideration is with resource usage, as we don’t want to take away from the processes of our model!

Thank you for reading this week’s post from team Electric Eye! The team has been making good progress and is excited for the IPPD PID. We’ll have plenty more to share soon!