This week we were able to connect our electronic components to our enclosure and make a rough prototype. While we do have video of the mice walking through it, we are unable to show it publicly due to research regulations. However, this is what our rough porotype looks like! … Read More
Tag: opencv
Prototype Inspection Day Feedback
Earlier this week, we presented our current prototype for feedback from selected judges. Most criticisms surrounded around our selfie system. Some suggestions given include using multiple cameras, using video instead of images, using multiple sensors, and using mirrors. Some of these suggestions seem more likely to work and be useful, such as using video instead… Read More
Working Prototype
This week, Macro Mice has been busy developing our prototype for the upcoming Prototype Inspection Day. On the software side, we set up the positioning for our different components, made “mouse ears” out of cardboard to test with, and started testing our program. 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
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