Week 5 Supervisor Meeting

In this week's meeting, I showed my progress since the last weeks meeting. I successfully rectified the issues I faced last week, allowing the MPU-6050 sensor to accurately measure and show all of the six values. I was also able to establish Bluetooth connectivity with the ESP32 and obtain the sensor values when the device was powered by a LiPo battery connected to a TP4056 module for charging the battery.

Given the huge number of values collected, Dr. Judhi proposed optimising data collecting by recording values only when a spike is detected, suggesting that a player is taking a shot. To simplify the process, he suggested assessing how straight a player's stroke is and comparing it to that of a professional. This comparison would then be utilised to create recommendations for the player.

Dr. Judhi was also very kind to provide his cue stick this week, which I can utilise to prototype my device. Based on the feedback this week, my objective for the following week is to implement the suggested optimisations and to 3D-print the model of the mount to securely attach the sensors at the end of the cue stick for precise cue stick motion capture.