Meeting Minutes 01: November 24, 2023

Initial Meeting

• Everyone introduced themselves
• Went over project spec

Hardware

• Microcontroller? do we need one? can we use a r-pi4?
• Protective housing
  • Have to worry about glass and refraction for camera
  • Have to worry about fog from heat

Software

• Model? yolo v5?
• Run the model locally or remote?
  • Do we have the processing power to run local? must also save data somewhere
• Using CV, ML or combo?

Github

• Creating user stories for each item
• starting issue tracker
• starting project board

Tasks

• Jasper
  • Will look into different ml models
  • Will also look into different CV alternatives
• Eric
  • Will look into web stuff and getting web interface going
• Zhiwen
  • Camera subsystem
  • Hardware
    • Raspberry Pi vs Arduino vs Pico etc
• Cam
  • Weather protection
  • 3d printing
  • Housing and structure
  • Cooling system