Welcome to our last blog post of the semester! For this week’s update, Team Wayfinder is happy to announce that our System Level Design Review (SLDR) presentation to all of our fellow teams and sponsors was successful! We hope to… Read More
Peer SLDR week
Hello again everyone, we hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving break! This week, Team Wayfinder has just finished our Peer System Level Design Review (SLDR) presentations are are working to tweak and refine the prototype in preparation for our SLDR… Read More
Prototype Inspection Day!
Happy Friday everyone, we hope you’ve been having a good week! With the updates and fixes the team has been implementing over the past several days, we are happy to say that Prototype Inspection Day was successful for Team Wayfinder!… Read More
New Updates + Incoming Tropical Storm
Hello everyone! Unfortunately, we are facing another tropical storm this week, with canceled classes on Friday and windy weather outside. However, Team Wayfinder has been continuing to update the demo in preparation for Prototype Inspection Day next Tuesday; this week,… Read More
First Prototype Demo with Freedom Scientific Engineers
This week, the team fully integrated our text-to-speech system into the prototype. Additionally, new features, such as proximity alarms and navigation nodes, were added to facilitate user navigation. Major bugs discovered last week were mostly fixed. Even though further polishment… Read More
Blind User Scene Updates
Hello to our readers! Welcome back, and we hope your week has been going well! This week, Team Wayfinder has been working hard on our prototype, and although things are still very basic, we are proud to have been able… Read More
First Prototype in Progress
Hello everyone! It is finally time for PDR presentations! This week, Team Wayfinder delivered a successful PDR presentation to our team coach and liaison, and received valuable feedback toward our project to implement and improve upon. The team was also… Read More
Peer Reviews and Dinner
This week, we had our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) presentations during class and presented it to our peers for commentary and evaluation. This is the first draft of our PDR, so with the feedback that we receive from our peers… Read More
Getting Back on Track
Hello and welcome back! We hope everyone has been able to safely reconnect with friends and family, and send all in the path of Ian our best wishes a quick and smooth recovery. This week, our team was able to… Read More
Hurricane Update
Hello readers! We hope everyone is staying safe and dry in these tough and stressful times, and send our thoughts and prayers to all friends and family in the path of Hurricane Ian. Unfortunately, there are no major updates regarding… Read More
Exploration and Brainstorm
This week we researched more into user needs and wants and how to reflect those needs and wants into our navigation mechanism. The main idea we came up with was the anchor point navigation mechanism: a graph-based architecture that connects… Read More
Finding Our Way
Hello and welcome back to our blog! Some new updates for this week: we have finally chosen a name for our team and our team logo! Our team name is now officially Wayfinder! More importantly – this past Wednesday, we… Read More
Welcome!
Hello and welcome to our first blog post! We are a team of four students at the University of Florida working with Freedom Scientific, and the goal of our project is to create a navigation tool to make XR/VR/AR applications… Read More