This week we finished the 2nd IPPD prototype day and we had an amazing time. Our presentation went really well and all the hard work we put into ensuring the demo would work payed off! We also gained some extremely valuable feedback from the judges that we will use going forward in our final design review.

Alex was able to get a virtual machine running on his laptop that had a small demo version of our full system in the lab. The prototype system also had an instance of Active Directory running, which allowed us to demo one of the most important features of our project. Our file upload application worked wonders during the demo and the judges were happy to see how much progress we have made after the setbacks we had at the beginning of this semester.

This week the team has also been working on our FDR draft, which is the final report for IPPD. It’s extremely important that we collect all information and documentation on our project, so we’ve also been working on writing as much as we can about the work we’ve done. Since our work is supposed to be reproduceable by Raytheon, we need to provide them with good documentation so that they understand how we made our prototype. Thankfully the ECM we are working with has extremely good documentation, so we don’t have to start from scratch.