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Our objective is to build a system that can work offline on raspberry pie and use stereo sound feedback systems to guide visually impaired people to walk in an indoor environment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Progress Report 4<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Updates on Our Progress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We designed how the components should be placed on the helmet and assembled them together.<\/li><li>We implemented a two-process program for running the main program and the stereo sound program separately.<ul><li>Previously we wanted to use a single python program with two simultaneous processes (Video processing &amp; sound).<\/li><li>Through testing we discovered that the two threads could not run together because they require different methods of starting its process.<\/li><li>Therefore, we created another program to serve as an audio server, it also has two processes. 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