On April 26th, we had our Final Design Report (FDR) event, where we were able to show off our finalized prototype and where the project could go in the future. After presenting to our sponsor and giving a detailed overview… Read More
Prototype Finalization
Welcome to the April 21st, 2023 investigator blog post. This week we work on finalizing our prototype. We obtained an enclosure for our product in order to house it neatly. We moved the prototype over into the new case and… Read More
Finalizing Enclosure and FDR
This week, Team InvestiGator worked on finalizing the design of the RFID reader enclosure and getting it 3D printed. The prototype of the box is shown above, with areas to hold the RFID reader, power sources, and other components. With… Read More
FDR Preparations
Team InvestiGator recently completed a successful prototype inspection day for their senior design project. The project showcased the capabilities of their UHF RFID asset management system. During the prototype inspection day, the team demonstrated the system’s capabilities to a panel… Read More
Prototype Inspection Day
On Tuesday, March 28th, we had our prototype inspection day. Three groups of judges came by our table to inspect our prototype and offer feedback. We presented the improvements we made since the last demonstration event, which included the PCB,… Read More
Preparing for Prototype Inspection
This week has been all about Prototype Inspection Day (PID), and making sure we are ready to present our current functionalities on Tuesday, March 28th. Our PCB we designed over the past few weeks has arrived, and our components have… Read More
PCB Finalization
Welcome back to the investigator weekly blog post. This week we worked with the software for the website to add some style changes to its layout. In these changes we decided to add an option to only display a specific… Read More
QRB2 and PCB purchase
Over this past week, our team worked on putting together a presentation and showing it for our QRB2. We also worked further on building our prototype, which is currently in the following stages: RFID Reader System: We have decided in… Read More
Polishing Our Prototype
Team InvestiGator is currently in the last phase of development for this project. We have nearly finalized a working design with all the subsystems in place as shown in the image below. As you can see, the microcontroller is communicating… Read More
Integration Continues
We continued working on integrating all of the components of the RFID reader system this week. As of this point, we are able to read RFID tags and GPS coordinates and send this data over a cellular connection to an… Read More
Integration Begins
This week, all necessary parts are in and the combination of these pieces has begun. The main pieces of concern are the cellular data and GPS combo module, RFID reader, microcontroller, and the server/database. Communication between these parts is currently… Read More
Start of Testing
Welcome to this week’s investigator Blog post. This week we had our first quarterly review board presentation to showcase the accomplishments we have completed so far and what our next steps are in completing our project. Over the past weeks we have… Read More
Making Purchases
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… Read More
First Week of Spring Semester
It’s been a while since our last post! Since then we attended SLDR day where we presented our progress to our sponsor. While there we also had a chance to meet the sponsors of other teams and get their perspective… Read More