Welcome to the team Electric Eye blog post for the week of 2/28! This week, in our second semester of IPPD, marks another milestone in our journey towards FDR with the completion of our second QBR. We are setting our sights towards PID with the goal of getting our device fully functional and operational. QBR2 has given us great feedback on the teams current progress and we are prepared to get to work!
This Week’s Work
Besides our work up to QBR2, the team also spent lots of time on development! Here are some of the things our team has accomplished this work:
- The Hardware team has successfully installed our AI chip onto our raspberry Pi!
- AI/ML have been able to successfully create a .hef file for our model to run locally!
- Our UI was cleaned up a bit and had some bugs fixed by the UX/UI team.
The .hef file for our AI is an important accomplishment that is worth mentioning a bit further. A .hef, or “Hailo Executable Format”, file is a binary file that stores a pre-compiled model that is designed to run efficiently on Hailo AI processors. The .hef allows our AI to be run efficiently on our device and frees up more processing power!
Next Steps
With out second QRB finished, the team feels even more confident about the track that we are on. A main point that our team needs to work towards now is testing, which we’ve already set plans to carry out! The progress of our device is going well and the team is excited to continue development knowing we are on the right track. Here are some of the team’s next steps:
- Begin aggregate testing our model.
- Finalize models for our device’s case.
- Continue development of our AI and UI.
We look to continue our development at the pace we’ve been moving, so that we are fully prepared for our second Prototype Inspection Day. Thank you for reading this week’s post from team Electric Eye!