Today was my first day of Independent Science Research this year. I spent most of class organizing my workspace and making sure everything was still t...
Today, I finished organizing my area, added functionality that should allow me to write to the database with facial recognition and check users off t...
This week was my first week of Independent Science Research - I only had two classes because I switched into this class. I wrote my proposal and bega...
Today, I reorganized my workstation to face only a single direction instead of taking up the entire corner - this leaves more space for the CRISPR pr...
This week (a short week, so with only two ISR class periods), I worked on integrating the two separate attendance systems that I have built. The RFID...
More dependency issues have arisen. It turns out the "linux2" problem exists in every major file in the Phidget library. I have modified those necess...
This week was spent transitioning from the golf cart project into the new minesweeper project. I did not make significant progress on either of my ma...
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Today, I updated my Arduino drivers, which did nothing to prevent my laptop crashing when the mBot is plugged in. However, when connected to a comput...
Today, I worked on my attendance system - I reinstalled Phidgets for Python 2. I think that if I reinstall everything, keeping the versions separate,...
Today, I worked on my attendance project - I coped all of my code and project data onto my laptop and then erased the SD card that is the main memory...
Today, I researched how to implement the solution I came up with for the attendance project. Using multithreading and the Python subprocess module, I...
Today, I installed OpenCV on my Raspberry Pi. Installing all of the library components takes an absurdly long time, but works reliably when following...
This week, I have been reformatting and setting up for my final test of the attendance system. My Raspberry Pi has all of the necessary tools install...
I have backed up all of my code for the HPA Attendance project in a Git repository, both locally and on GitHub here.
My project works - as of today, I was able to test it in its entirety, despite losing a Pi to water damage (it has since been replaced - thanks, Dr. B...
Today, I set up a crontab that will activate my recognition program every 10:00 AM on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and modified the code to run ...
Today, I ran the first live test of my attendance program - I had everyone sign in with their cards However, it did not work - there are no entries i...
This week, I worked on several side projects, as well as (unsuccessfully) trying to diagnose why my attendance program gives no feedback when it enco...
Today, I presented my project to a new prospective student, and researched alternate platforms for the attendance system. In looking at other peoples...
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