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Dining Meeting with Demo

• Went really well
• Gave lots of good feedback
  • Inventory management and taxes are two things we don’t want to have to deal with. If we work with them, they could help. It’s just an API call
  • They really liked it
• Demo looked like….
  • New Jetson with YOLO
  • Weight scale and jig
• “What would it look like for us to integrate with dining dollars”
  • We need to make sure this thing works and won’t charge crazy sums of money for no reason
  • There is regulatory compliance if we are accepting payments
  • It’s an API interface
    • Bill through a HTTP request basically
• They implied that they want to see it at Imagine, and if it works we can talk about working with them in the future

Overall Next Steps for the Project

• We need to build this thing
  • Come up with bill of materials
• Lots of software needs to be built
  • API needs to be created to stores weights and images

Hardware

• Do we want to use a magnet to keep the door closed or a latch?
  • Magnet
    • 115lb of force so if someone yanks harder than that it will open
    • Idea is if they want to break in they would just pull the magnet loose instead of actually breaking the machine
    • Some potential downsides:
      • Heat from electromagnets
      • Wasted power (has to constantly run)
      • If you unplug the machine…. unlimited access
  • Latch
    • Stronger than magnet but machine would actually break the machine if they want to break in
• After some discussion, sounds like latch has the majority vote

Vision/AI

• New Jetson is working with YOLO
  • Wilson is going to create a script that will fetch the latest weights so that it can detect with the newest weights
• Today’s task is to have people take pictures of items. Asha will then develop a script to store descriptors
  • After this, can’t really move forward until we have the API
• This project is officially Asha’s term project for advanced computer vision!! 🥳
  • This better work guys lets get this shit going

UI

• Not many updates, Olivia is still working on final UI
• Isaac created the Qt project but hasn’t added any features yet