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Weekly Meetings

Meeting #9 (3/10/2022)

Began: 4:31 pm
Adjourned: 6:24 pm

Discussions: 

  • Confirmed Assignment deadlines and presentation date. 

  • Discussed implementing a handheld button to start the object detection sequence. 

  • Reviewed chapter 2 of the report. 

Deliverables:

  • Revise report based on feedback from Professor Ejaz

  • Run TensorFlow on a laptop and test on a few images. 

Meeting #8 (3/10/2022)

Began: 4:30 pm
Adjourned: 5:42 pm

Discussions: 

  • Reviewed proposal report. 

  • Discussed programming environments. 

Deliverables:

  • Revise report based on feedback from Professor Ejaz

  • Run TensorFlow on a laptop and test on a few images. 

Meeting #7 (3/3/2022)

Began: 4:30 pm
Adjourned: 5:42 pm

Discussions: 

  • Reviewed the steps for initiating the object detection. 

  • Reviewed chapter 1 of the report. 

Deliverables:

  • Revise chapter 1 of the report. 

  • Continue writing the report. 

  • Review new methods for initiating object detection, either a hand gesture or time-lapse for example. 

Meeting #6 (2/24/2022)

Began: 4:34 pm
Adjourned: 5:24 pm

Discussions: 

  • Reviewed the feedback given by both Chris Smith and Katherine McGrane. 

  • Discussed ways to improve our project based on feedback

  • Discussed better ways to initiate the project a button, voice control, or length of time. 

Deliverables:

  • Determine and define how the project will initiate. 

  • Research bone-conducting speakers

  • Research glasses design.

  • Research TensorFlow and bring a "game plan" for how we will complete this project. 

  • Work on Report

Meeting #5 (2/10/2022)

Began: 4:35pm
Adjourned: 5:34pm

Discussions: 

  • How to structure the Engineering Requirments and Specification documents. 

  • Discussed what the engineering requirements would be for our wearable visual aid project. 

  • Discussed how to create a budget and the differences between a design budget and an actual budget. 

Deliverables:

  • Fix the Engineering Specifications and Requirements documents. 

  • Add a title and abstract to the landing page. 

  • Update Block Diagrams

  • Add Success Criteria 

  • Add Proposed Budget

Meeting #4 (2/3/2022)

Began: 4:31pm
Adjourned: 5:22pm

Discussions: 

  • Reviewed website specifically the progress and time and effort pages.

  • Decided on our project to be the wearable visual aid device and discussed ways to make the project better. 

  • Chose to switch to a hat design instead of the necklace. 

Deliverables:

  • Add a reference page to the website with cited sources. 

  • Determine the Engineering requirements and specifications.

  • Research tensorflow. 

Meeting #3 (1/27/2022)

Began: 4:32pm
Adjourned: 5:32pm

Discussions:

  • Went through the website and discussed ways to improve the Progress log.

  • Automatic guitar tuner 

    • Discussed ways to make our project stand out from what's currently on the market. ​

    • Discussed Concerns about power consumption if using 6 stepper motors. 

  • Wearable Visual Aid Device 

    • Discussed implementing this as a shopping aid using OCR to read and recognize the brand names

Deliverables:

  • Add more detail to the progress log 

  • Create a rendering of the wearable visual aid device for the project idea

  • Create a more detailed block diagram for the wearable visual aid device. 

Began: 8:59am
Adjourned: 10:51am

Meeting #2 (1/21/2022)

Discussions:

  • Laser Projector

    • Connect phone wirelessly to a projector

  • Paper Airplane Game

    • Need more of a problem-solving project​

    • Implement a multiplayer aspect

  • Mailbox

    • Already a similar project for amazon package

    • Issues with mail delivery with a locked door

    • Possible legal issue

Deliverables:

  • Add Automatic Guitar tuner and come up with ways to make it different than the competition. 

  • Brainstorm New ideas

Began: 6:00pm
Adjourned: 6:34pm

Meeting #1 (1/14/2022)

Discussions:

  • Course Sylabus

  • Principles of Design Project

  • Monetary Expectations

  • Organized Meeting Time

Deliverables:

  • Build Website

  • Brainstorm Project Ideas

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