Welcome to Earlham CS Senior Capstone Experience.

I briefly removed the timestamps from my program, but I didn’t notice any change in performance any more, so I just left them in the program as before. I also made my program a little more interesting by playing random … Read More

The past few days have been really rough on me, as I attended the Techpoint Xtern Finalist reception all day yesterday, all while being sick with a sore throat and cold from the freezing weather recently. On a positive note, … Read More

Got facedetect.cpp to compile correctly. Now working on testing it with data provided by openCV.

I have been working on trying to find database for diseases for Robyn.

I didn’t accomplish anything the first few days of the week. Today I want to read some more sources and finalize the paper topic. I may start incorporating the survey paper into the draft, so I can start building up … Read More

I have been working on my bot. I decided to name my bot Robyn. I also created a repo in my github (github.com/arai13) for Robyn and have started taking snapshots on a regular basis.

Yesterday, as suggested by Forrest, I added the ability to calculate the current tempo of the music in BPM based on the amount of time in between the last two detected beats. It doesn’t attempt to ignore any false positive … Read More

I am continuing the tests that I mentioned in the previous update and adding them to the graph.

I spent Monday running more tests with ffmpeg to get better data.  I am now forcing a specific number of prediction frames over a regular interval.

Today I open up the extension cord to see what I was going to be working with. I expected two solid pieces of copper instead, I found many very skinny pieces.  Will need to consult with kyle about how to go … Read More

Data collection and work with data to determine the exact resistor values I will need for the circuit, paid close attention to power dissipation

Communicated with kyle to work on circuit board online with circuit.io, made good progress

finalized circuit board online

So after playing around and exploring for a bit, I have finally chosen my final set of tools for the project. I will be using Python, AIML, SQLite with Py3kAIML and sqlite3 libraries. I was able to finish the plumbing … Read More

Today, I added the ability to change the volume of the sound based on the acceleration value, or how quickly the hand is moved, as well as change the frequency of the sound and thus change the note being played … Read More

November 2 – November 4 Since I figured that understanding Android development would take more time than I expected, I decided to speed up the development process by using Cordova as my development platform. I installed Cordova on my computer … Read More