We’re finishing up the fall semester! Here’s a recap of what we’ve been doing in our final days before we go our separate ways until January. First, officially welcoming Sydney Burge to this exciting project! Sydney is a Storyteller at… Read More

As we approach the end of 2022, it’s time to bring together all of our work into a comprehensive System Level Design Review. In preparing this SLDR, we’ve spent a lot of time expanding on all of the details related… Read More

This week, the team focused on our presentation for Prototype Inspection Day. This presentation went well and we got some feedback that we are working to incorporate into our design. We worked on finalizing the track before this event and… Read More

This week, the team focused on completing a prototype for Prototype Inspection Day. This involved a lot of work on the track which can be seen in the image below. Lots of soldering was completed to get a working prototype.… Read More

This week we started working with our physical components, both structural and electrical, to construct a prototype demonstrating our machine’s core features. So far we’ve spent several weeks working on the content and artistic design for our machine, and after… Read More

With a ton of great feedback from our PDR presentation last week, it’s time for our team to look ahead to Prototype Inspection Day (PID) in just a few weeks! This week we entered the prototyping phase by detailing the… Read More

This week, after we further refined our designs, we had the privilege of presenting our preliminary design presentation to the Cade staff in Dr. Cade’s Garage. Surrounded by beautifully maintained vintage cars, we outlined our initial design concepts and project… Read More

This week team FunRaiser worked on finalizing concepts and incorporating these into our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) Report. Our team is very excited to share our ideas with the members of the Cade Museum staff Wednesday 10/19 during our PDR… Read More

As our team continues to workshop the ideas from our collaborative brainstorming, this week brought even more fun—we finally got to explore the Cade Museum in person as a team! As much as Hurricane Ian and the Cade Prize event… Read More

We’ve started brainstorming! This past week we gathered together the research and ideation we’d done separately and finally began collaborative brainstorming. First, we discussed the breadth of all of our ideas, and began arranging these ideas in mind maps, like… Read More

This past week, we got to work with team Chemboard for a Six Sigma team building workshop. Together we found ways to make our processes more efficient in a car dealership simulation. Jake was determined to make our dealership the… Read More

As of this week we’re officially Team FunRaiser, and we’re beginning to dig in deeper to our project and understand the task ahead of us. We met virtually with our liaison at the Cade Museum, Ellie Thom, to introduce ourselves… Read More

Hello, and welcome to our blog! We are currently Team 03, official name TBD, and we’re all super excited to be participating in IPPD this year. We’ll be working with the Cade Museum to build an Interactive Donation Machine. We’re… Read More