This week, our team gave our SLDR presentation! We received lots of helpful feedback, and were asked some difficult questions. Overall, the presentation went well, and we appreciate the feedback and questions from the audience. In the next semester, we… Read More

This week, our team finished our rough draft of our System-Level Design Review (SLDR) report and presentation, which we will present this coming week. We gave our draft presentation to the class for peer review, and received lots of good… Read More

This week, we presented out first prototype! We demonstrated our application’s functionality on both the merchant and customer sides, complete with a working system for transferring menu and order information over Bluetooth. The judges seemed impressed by our prototype, and… Read More

This week, the team continued utilizing the scrum methodology to divide tasks and drive the project forward. This has allowed the team to work more efficiently and progress has been made on the prototype, particularly with the UI/UX for the… Read More

This week, we gathered together all of our ideas for the prototype and began development. We assigned tasks to each team member, and decided on using Github issues to keep track of everyone’s progress during this initial prototype process. We… Read More

This week, our team worked on developing our plan for prototype inspection day. We discussed our plan with our sponsor to make sure we were all on the same page. Our preliminary plan for our prototype involves demonstrating the Bluetooth… Read More

This week, we finished up our PDR Report and Presentation. We spent plenty of time practicing our presentation to make sure we were well prepared and ready to present. On Friday, we presented our PDR to our sponsor, liaison, and… Read More

This week, our team presented our PDR Presentation to the class for peer review and finished the first draft of our PDR Report. In class, we presented our initial PDR Presentation and received feedback from our classmates, which we will… Read More

This week, we met up on Sunday to get some of the details of the project ironed out. We worked on our both our Software and Hardware Architecture Diagram, to make sure we had everything sorted out. We decided on… Read More

This week, we finished and submitted our project roadmap for the first semester and our First Month Report. We selected concepts for both our hardware and software this week as well, after discussing them with our sponsor. On the hardware… Read More

Our team finally met our sponsor this week! In our first meeting, we compared our thoughts about the project and ideas for solutions. We discovered that our sponsor’s requirement for the system be “hands-free” was less strict than we had… Read More

In class this week, we presented our logo and team name. Our team name was well-received, but there was some constructive criticism about our logo design. We simplified the overall design, and made some changes to address points that our… Read More

Our first order of business this week was creating a proper logo. Our previous one was created in a minute or two on an iPad. We had a meeting where we all gave our input and created a new logo… Read More

We are Team 01, also known as “Easy Money”. I’m Andrew Watson, the current Blog Editor for Easy Money. Together with the rest of my team, we are excited to be working with American Express to develop DrivePay™, a system… Read More