This Tuesday (November 14th), the Road Watch team took part in the Prorotype Inspection Day (PID) Event. Here, each team creates a working prototype of their design, and presents it to judges with relevant experience (and to any other teams who are interested). In some respects, the event was very similar to a science fair. We were able to get the mechanical aspects of the LiDAR, the radio link, the audiovisual alerts, and the computer vision elements of the project working for this prototype, which the judges seemed impressed by. This event was a great opportunity to receive feedback on our design. Most was positive, though some interesting points were raised. Many judges inquired about the computational throughput of the Jetson Nano, as the Computer Vision demonstration was very slow. There were additional recomendations about the enclosure, and the design’s ruggedness more generally. We will be sure to take this feedback into consideration moving forwared. Thank you to all the judges who offered their time and expertise to evaluate and suggest improvements for our project. In the following post, we will begin working on our System Level Design Review (SLDR), so be sure to come back next week to read more about that.