Project Title: Vision Systems and Campus Automation
Project Scope: Classroom Attendance and Intra-campus Transport
Project Duration/ti...
Abstract: This project will focus on first creating an automated attendance system using a combination of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag...
Today, we went over our goals for Quarter 2. I seem to have ended up with five separate projects:
Security and penetration testing (next st...
This year, I originally proposed to work on "Vision Systems and Campus Automation", with a specific focus on "Classroom Attendance and Intra-campus T...
Today, I presented my project to Ms. Petteys. I think that the presentation went well - I explained my progress throughout this year, with the failed...
This week, I reassembled the old PCR box and did research for several projects, while waiting for my last hydroponic sensor to arrive. It has now arr...
Today, I finished creating and uploading the models for my entire class. I ran out of RAM again, however. I discovered by analyzing the Python memory...
I fixed the memory problem! Or at least I hope so. With today's modifications to my project, I was able to cut the weight of the Python script by abo...
Today, I worked on the dependency issues between Phidgets and OpenCV. I have resolved a host of issues, and I am now down the last issue of the devic...
Today, I spent most of my time fixing version differences between the various libraries I have been relying on for my project; the Phidgets library t...
Today, I worked exclusively on the attendance database problem. I have managed to make the Python script capable of posting information to the databa...
Today, I planned the database architecture that I will be using for the Attendance project. I set up the MySQL server, made it available over the net...
Today, I tested my program for attendance again, using only my card; despite adding in more print() statements for it to catch errors, the program fa...
Today, we practiced presenting our final products, and talked about what that would entail, as well as presenting to three visitors. I will need to s...
Today, I presented my project to a new prospective student, and researched alternate platforms for the attendance system. In looking at other peoples...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
I have backed up all of my code for the HPA Attendance project in a Git repository, both locally and on GitHub here.
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