With absolutely nothing at all happening in the rest of the country, team Macro Mice spent the week hard at work on both the digital and physical fronts of the project. For the behavioral unit, Daniel has made great progress in finalizing the… Read More
Prototyping Begins
This week as part of the selfie system team, Derek has been having trouble with the processor speed of his Raspberry Pi. After following all the instructions for installing OpenCV, he used “make” and the Raspberry Pi has been building for over 24 hours now.… Read More
PDR Presentation
On October 22nd, we met with members of the Acomys Research Consortium and presented our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) to them. We received a lot of valuable feedback from the members and got to introduce ourselves to some members of the ARC we had not… Read More
PDR Preparations and Prototype Beginnings
By far the biggest activity this week was our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) presentation peer-review. For those who are unfamiliar, the PDR presentation, and by extension the PDR report, is the first chance where each individual IPPD team gets a chance to show their current… Read More
A Small Update
Team Macro Mice has been hard at work on the beginning stages of our project. After obtaining 32gb micro SD cards, we finally had enough space to download and install OpenCV on our raspberry pi. We followed the tutorials that were linked in our last… Read More
Hardware Hurdles and Meeting Mice
Earlier this week, we attempted to use Open CV on a Raspberry Pi. Some tutorials that were helpful were this one from Open CV and this one from Py Image Search. However, we only had an 8gb micro SD card for the pi and after updating the Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian), there… Read More
First Steps
This week Team Macro Mice laid the foundation for the project at hand. With microcontrollers and cameras beginning to be ordered, the team will begin working on developing the electronic and software aspects of the project! We hope to start working with Open CV to… Read More
The Spiny Mouse Selfie
The spiny mouse is the only known mammal capable of regenerating tissue to the skin, ear, skeletal muscle, kidney, spinal cord, heart, and brain. The unique regenerative properties of the spiny mouse have made it popular in research. However, when observing the mouse and how fast its tissue has healed, researchers are forced… Read More