Category Archives: Joshua Bailey’sBlog

Week 9

One week away from the final presentation. In preparation of this my partner and I have been wrapping everything up. We’ve documented the code we’ve written as well as provided instructions on what needs to be installed and how to …

Week 8

This week my partner and I gave a demonstration of our whole system running to our mentors and graduate advisers. They were pretty impressed and it was nice to see the whole thing working fluidly. The IR camera detects a …

Week 7

This week was very productive. My partner and I were able to finally get data off of the IR camera. We used a python script that continuously reads data from the sensor and saves it into frames. When the user …

Week 6

This week was filled with merriment and excitement. My partner got some face detection scripts running which work pretty well. There is also hope for the infrared sensor as I found some promising scripts and possibly another means of retrieving …

Week 5

This week was exciting. It first seemed like it was going to be another bad week of no progress but we ended up getting some sample scripts to run that wasn’t working earlier. This was because we were installing the …

Week 4

This week was very frustrating. My partner and I are trying to read input from an infrared sensor via a USB however there is little documentation of this on the internet. Everyone seems to be utilizing the GPIO pins on …

Week 3

This week was very exciting. My partner (Nigel) and I are beginning to dive deeper into our research project. By next week we will begin working on configuring an infrared (IR) sensor to a device called a BeagleBone Black which …

Week 2

This week went pretty well. Nigel and I made some progress on setting up the preliminary stages of our progress which is exciting. Next week we will try and finish setting up and begin working on our project! I’m pretty …