Having finally settled into the Spring semester, Team SimpliciTea is working hard to bring this project to fruition. The first of two Quality Review Board presentations, occurred last week and yielded valuable feedback from several project coaches. The overarching theme of feedback was project timeline. Coaches encouraged the team to take a step back to evaluate the project timeline and be overly proactive to ensure all deliverables are not only met, but on time. With that in mind, both the electrical and mechanical sub teams are challenging themselves to move up deadlines while maintaining an equal quality all work produced.

This week, the electrical team continued to develop their PCB design with the hopes of sending it to be manufactured soon. The mobile app is also in it’s infancy stages, with the hopes of graduating from wire frames next week. The mechanical team 3D printed several components in the IPPD lab this week and will conduct thorough testing next week to ultimately select a final design concept. Further support from their liaison engineers have allowed the team to incorporate CAD designs from existing Mr. Coffee products as well as physically using components from models that they have sent directly to the team.