Expiration Checker (GERALD)

- Had trouble running the dockerfile, still working it out

- Added more images to the basecamp file depicting expiration codes

- Decided to switch off of Scenetext recognition to license plate recognition, as Scenetext has proven difficult to manage, license plate recognition did not work

- Started new method, which began to work well, and eventually got it to recognize text from a picture! 

- Began setting up the lights, had an issue, still figuring it out, started looking for youtube videos that could help us. 

- Finished incorporating the months into pythonanywhere code, our code can now read the month of the year and determine if it is expired or not,

- Got the formula down for the python code, just need to do a lot of coding to add in all the months and dates, etc. 

- Continued researching for the light aspect 

- Tried running the python code, but it was flawed, still checking. Eventually got it working correctly.

- Finished the python code! It can now correctly recognize dates, and compare them. When we press a key, the file runs, and we want to make it run when we take a picture. 

- Became stuck on finding a correct light. 

- Got the camera to work

- Ended up still using scenetext recognition, got some errors and got stuck

- continued to work on lights, but got stuck because we could not get neo lights working, and we started using the breadboard for the LEDs

- GOT THE LEDS WORKING! They blink on and off, and we have figured them out FINALLY. 

Didn't get an actual picture of the program, but this is a drawing that shows very closely to what the program can do so far. 

- Had trouble running the dockerfile, still working it out

- Added more images to the basecamp file depicting expiration codes

- Decided to switch off of Scenetext recognition to license plate recognition, as Scenetext has proven difficult to manage, license plate recognition did not work

- Started new method, which began to work well, and eventually got it to recognize text from a picture! 

- Began setting up the lights, had an issue, still figuring it out, started looking for youtube videos that could help us. 

- Finished incorporating the months into pythonanywhere code, our code can now read the month of the year and determine if it is expired or not,

- Gained access to a jetson nano, with password and username.

- Created hackaday.io, started documenting our weekly progress using logs.

- Began looking on NVIDIA to find code that would be efficient for the reading of text, tried out code, seeing if it would be sufficient, found code that looks promising.

- Brainstorming logistics, and strategies, etc.

- Started downloading code for our program

- Added images to basecamp depicting expiration dates for our AI