Much of the Fall semester was spent on planning and deciding what components needed to be purchased and from where to properly deliver the final version of our prototype. With all that in mind, Team InvestiGator has officially got back in the groove of what the plan was and we made our first few purchases. There are essentially two major components of our project:

• Ensure sensor can read tags and send data to microcontroller.
• Ensure microcontroller can send data to a database through the internet.

The parts we just purchased promote our progress towards this second goal, and the team is planning on making the purchases that will allow us to work on the first goal as well. We don’t expect everything to work right off the bat, but we are excited to get our hands dirty with the project we have been planning for so long!