Welcome to this week’s blog post from team Electric Eye! This week was all about connecting the dots, and we’re excited to share more about this in our post. The next time our team meets in person to complete project work will be during our visit to the FPL head quarters where we will be testing our device! We have been working hard to ensure that our device is ready for that visit so that we have a product that can be tested. With next week being spring break, this was the time needed to really lock everything in!
Work Completed
With this week being all about connecting the dots, there were some important achievements we made to get to this point. While not every feature has been developed and there is more work to be done, the team is nearly finished putting together our full device. This week we had a successful 3D print of the top half of our device! Currently, we are working on getting the rest of our casing printed and will be able to put all the pieces together for our device soon! With that being said, here are some of the other accomplishments the sub-teams made to help connect the dots this week!
- More on hardware: Beyond our first 3D print, the hardware team has also successfully integrated LED functionality! The hardware team continues to work on our .hef file, and it is almost prepared for final use in our device. For now, the hardware team is waiting for the model to be trained to obtain a final file so they can begin testing!
- AIL/ML: The AI team is continuing work on training the device’s model! Currently we are working on labeling data with CVAT, however there are some small issues that the team has been running into with how the model handles the data. While this is worked on, the team will continue training on what they can for now.
- UI/UX: The UI team have put effort into ensuring that each aspect of the project is connected together and interactable for the user. The device’s UI display’s information about the device and is using the most up-to-date model running locally! The team also finished the “Add Hazard” feature.
Next up for each sub-team is to work on different features and truly get to testing our device. Part of the team’s goal for our trip to FPL is get solid testing results on our device which will help us gauge progress and potential changes we may need to make.
Beyond the progress made towards our device this week, our team also spent time outlining a storyboard for our project pitch! We’ll have more updates on our video in later blog posts. Next week there won’t be a blog post from our team since we will be on spring break, but when we get back, there will be plenty of interesting details to share. Thank you for reading this week’s blog post from team Electric Eye!