This week, Fly Bye has been busy at work making progress on the various work streams. Most notably, the PCBs have been made and ordered, the data collection for the image-based prototype has been booming, the model offloading on the device has been developing, and the new housing CAD model has been progressing. QRB 2 is just around the corner and Fly Bye is committed to producing results and continuing strong!
This week, Fly Bye has been working on getting the machine learning model on our image prototype microcontroller. Fly Bye was also able to test out the infrared CAD design with the McPhail trap. The box design for holding the Fresnel lens and infrared PCBs needs to be reworked as it does not fit seamlessly inside, and it will be redesigned accordingly. The infrared PCB design is complete and will soon be sent off to the manufacturer. Once the manufactured PCBs arrive, Fly Bye hopes that the flies will be more cooperative with the new design, and a more successful infrared data collection process can begin. Next week, Fly Bye wants to collect more infrared data from the USDA lab to start the ML process for the infrared project.
In sad news, one of Fly Bye members broke their elbow on the way to class on Tuesday, which is very sad. Feel better, Whitney!
This past weekend, Adam and Griffin met with Dr. Rohde at Afternoon restaurant in Gainesville for brunch and project updates. Fly Bye received an insect tent for testing in our infrared-based system, as well as new cameras for the image-based system. Fly Bye has been working this week to optimize the imaging system while also making progress on the PCB for the infrared system. The main event for IPPD this week was the Qualification Review Board. Fly Bye presented their project progress and prototype updates this week to a panel of faculty coaches during the IPPD QRB 1 event. The team received useful feedback regarding the progress of the project and how the presentation was structured regarding separating the two projects. Overall, this week was exciting for IPPD-related work and project progress!
Last week, Flye Bye’s progress on the image-based prototype was stunted by extremely bad luck: all 6 of the ESP32-CAMs broke. One of them suddenly short-circuited when plugged in and became extremely hot. Another one showed a brownout error. Thus, Fly Bye attempted to use one of the remaining 4, all of which were in the same shipment. This turned out to be a bad batch: all 4 malfunctioned in the same way. This unfortunate discovery set progress back, in which Fly Bye had to wait on the shipment of a new batch. Fortunately, the bad-luck streak ended–where Fly Bye just received a new batch, and these work! Next week, Fly Bye will try new lenses on the cameras on these boards and try to get clearer images. Fly Bye looks forward to presenting their progress in QRB 1 next week as well!
A busy semester has begun for Fly Bye. The team has started preparing for the first quarterly report! Alyssa and Griffin visited the Gainesville USDA lab to begin testing the IR prototype. While Sebastian met with Dr. Silva to discuss the ML model for the camera prototype. Whitney and Adam are working out the bugs “pun intended” with the cameras for the prototype. Below is the preliminary IR prototype. More ahead with Fly Bye
After a great winter break, Flye Bye is happy to be back! Early this week, Flye Bye met to discuss this semester and different areas of the project that need to focused on. Since then, Fly Bye has been hard at work to make progress. Some members of Flye Bye met with Dr. Koppal to discuss more on how to improve the camera quality, and others met with other professors for feedback on how to improve the accuracy of models used. This will be a challenging but very rewarding semester for Flye Bye!
This semester is coming to a close for team Fly Bye and they have been hard at work to finish the semester strong. They closed in on a successful System Level Design Review presentation in front of other teams and sponsors and are planning on the next steps for the Spring semester. Although there is still much work to be done, team Flye Bye feels good about their progress and are looking forward to all that there is to come!
As the semester nears a close, Fly Bye is working diligently to finalize project plans for the end of semester, winter break, and start of next semester. This week, Fly Bye presented its progress in project development through the System Level Design Review – Peer Review (SLDR-PR) event. In this event, Fly Bye performed a 15-minute presentation discussing aspects of the project including problem statement, project significance, proposed solutions, prototype development, product design specifications, and project plans. After conclusion of the presentation, questions were taken from the audience consisting of IPPD students and faculty.
Later in the week, Fly Bye met as a team to implement feedback received from audience members at the SLDR-PR presentation. Updates were made to existing PowerPoint slides and new slides were added to further clarify project details. Additionally, Fly Bye met with their liaison Dr. Rohde to discuss prototype development and travel plans for the winter break. Fly Bye intends to visit the USDA-ARS station to perform testing on prototypes with live fruit flies. The team will present their final SLDR presentation on December 6th with Dr. Rohde present – we are excited for Dr. Rohde to visit Gainesville again!
Team Fly Bye was busy this week with Prototype inspection day. The team presented their camera based prototype to seven judges including their coach Dr. Koppal. They got some great feedback and are gearing up to start making major headway on the infrared prototype. Fly Bye is hard at working preparing their System Level Design Review for their end of term presentation. At the moment the team is excited for Thanksgiving break and making sure they can hit the ground running when they return to Gainesville after the holiday.
This week, Team Flye Bye has invested time in reflecting over their previous trip to Miami. This trip has allowed for them to grow closer and learn more about what their sponsors are looking for in their final iteration of their project.
Prototype inspection day is now just around the corner, and Team Flye Bye is busy at work preparing and refining their camera based prototype. Their aim is to have a working prototype that will take a picture of fruit flies on sticky paper, detect where and which fruit flies are present, and save the image with boxes surrounding the detected fruit fly. Our team is excited to accomplish this feat and is confident that through effort and teamwork, the sky is the limit!
