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That’s all, folks!

On 4/25, we had our Final Design Review (FDR) event for our sponsor, IPPD, and for the general public to attend. It was a great success and we thank everyone that was able to come out! With that, we mark… Read More

NextEra Energy Visit and Presentation!

The team finished their presentation to NextEra’s executives today! After much preparation, we are excited to say that it was a success. In addition, we spent a lot of time with environmental and MODBUS testing, all of which were a… Read More

Prototype Inspection Day!

This week we had our Prototype Inspection Day! We spent a lot of time discussing what would be done for our demonstration, and we decided to show off what our device could do by 3D-printing a wind turbine with a… Read More

It’s alive!

This week, we performed more testing and programming on our prototype PCBs and modules. We were able to confirm the functionality of Ethernet, Solid-State Relay, and RTD modules. Here, Quinton and Tom are testing the temperature reporting capabilities by immersing… Read More

On Track

The team continues their work on the circuit board assemblies and have put it through a variety of testing which were all a success (one of which shown below after much trial and error)! With the Electrical Engineering portion of… Read More

Redemption

This week was an absolute blur! We started the week off with renewed hope from the failure analysis lab regarding our old prototypes. After reviewing the results from our two failed prototypes, it appears that at least one of our… Read More