:: Video recorded during presentation using Julio camera ::

And to finish our blog publications... a short video with a different perspective. The video was recorded on Maria, using it's video capabilities, during the first flight of Julio.

Thank you everybody for welcoming this project and for the feedback given.

:: Video of the presentation ::

And here it is... the video of the presentation. The sound is not to good (and it's in Portuguese), but it was what we could record.

We take the opportunity to thank everybody who helped us on the project.

:: Report published ::

Here it is the final and complete version of the report.

Unfortunately we didn't had the time to translated to English, so the version here available is the original one in Portuguese. If you don't speak Portuguese, maybe Google will help on understanding it ;)

Link to final report

:: Presentation preparation ::

The expected moment is coming. It's today at 18h30.

We've been here all morning preparing the room:

• Drawing a 5x3meters rectangle as our "area" for Chasso;
• Testing the compass values of Chasso, so that we assemble the room with the least influences possible (turn out to be a maximum amount of 2 degrees - much better than any value we got anytime before);
• Testing the ambient light (to know how we can calibrate Maria and still have good results for facial recognition);
• Assemble a second projector, for closeups on the robots (since not everybody will be able to see them on the floor);
• Assemble everything else and to some dry runs.

At 17h00, with the heat, we started having problems. Until that time, everything was running smoothly and as planned. But, then, the USB hub inside Maria blew up, as well as the web cameras whom also stopped work. We had to rush thru the university to get 4 fans and try to cool everything up and substitute the hub.

We eventually manage to cool down everything, including the PC, which also, by then, was also having errors on the wi-fi board and because one of the web cameras was "dead", we had to recalibrate Maria and do the presentation with less sensitivity on Maria.

:: Global and final tests ::

Today, the day before the presentation to professors and fellow students, we are doing our final tests. It shouldn't be, but it is the first time we reunited all components on the same room, and use all together for the first time, as a global system. Unfortunately, because of the large scope of the project and the amount of time we had to develop it, only today we manage to test everything all at once. Everything went ok ;)

And the door with the "To do's" is clean! Everything done. Now, let's prepare the presentation.

:: Report delivered! Now, dry runs! ::

Today, we finished the final report and send it to evaluation. After the work is presented, we will publish it here.

After the report, we did our first assemble of everything has is going to be presented. The presentation will occur on the 28th of June, therefore tomorrow, will be spent preparing the presentation and do some dry runs.