1. Continue and try to finalize Maria's UI prototype;
2. Do some more tests with different materials on top of Maria glass;
3. Continue the programming of the "Travelling salesman" algorithm;
4. Implement new wi-fi camera for Chasso, together with Chasso navigation (this one using all the changes made to it on the last days, mainly the color sensor to know the whereabouts of the base).
If on points 1 to 3 of the agenda, we did some steps forward. Not finishing it, but came close to have it done or at least, got more near the end, in the point 4 of the agenda we found a major problem that could become a major impediment on the implementation of our concept... the Lego NXT brick has a very high latency between the sensors readings (we have to wait more than 500 milliseconds) for a complete reading on all 4 sensors. This by itself we already knew, the problem is when we had the time consumed for processing the video for the wi-fi camera, the time do detect faces on that video and the other tasks, the system becomes very, very slow. It's impossible to work only the Chasso, so using both Chasso and Julio at the same time, seems even more impossible.
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We are using a MacBook Pro with an i5 and 8 Gb of RAM and the processor is getting to around 40% of use, so what we will do to try to solve this issue is to break some of the processor consuming tasks in threads, so that we can use multiple cores of the CPU and get a little more performance. News on this on the following days...
