According to our project guidelines, we plan on developing and producing a final product in 10 weeks. Table 1 below is an outline of our preliminary per week breakdown of what we hope to accomplish.
| Week |
Goal |
| April 8 - 14 |
- Obtain all necessary parts
- Determine the necessary algorithms for finding angles and coordinates
- Explore the tradeoffs between tables and floating-point emulations
- Explore Windows CE programming paradigm and get a sample application that demonstrates and understanding of the programming environment
- Explore the camera interfaces
- Begin work on preliminary design package
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| April 15 - 21 |
- Explorer RF and IR tradeoffs
- Begin synthesizing image processing algorithms into hardware
- Begin development of Windows CE application used to display information to the user
- Submit preliminary design package
- Prepare for preliminary design package presentation
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| April 22 - 28 |
- Debug the image capture and image processing subsystems
- Determine the wireless protocol that sits on top of RF or IR which will be used to transmit the data to the Windows CE device
- Debug the Windows CE application
- Submit revised preliminary design package
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| April 29 - May 5 |
- Begin data correlation subsystem
- Begin work on final design package
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| May 6 - 12 |
- Debug data correlation subsystem
- Integrate the data correlation subsystem with image capture and image processing subsystem
- Develop the RF or IR communication link in hardware
- Submit final design package
- Prepare for final design presentation
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| May 13 - 19 |
- Debug the RF and IR communication link
- Integrate all subsystems together and test the entire system
- Submit revised final design package
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| May 20 - 26 |
- Begin product brochure
- Plan a demonstration
- Finalize all design constraints, specifications, and assumptions we made
- Begin final project report
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| May 27 - June 2 |
- Finish project brochure
- Finish final project report
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