This Tuesday (April 2nd), the Road Watch team took part in the second Prorotype Inspection Day (PID2) Event. Here, like with the same event last semester, each team presents their progress on their project prototype to several judges with sufficient background to assess the deliverable. It is very comparable to a science fair in this regard, but features a greater emphasis on engineering output than on research results. Our prototype was not where we had hoped it would be, due to some last-minute error encountered during the integration stage. We ran into an issue where the LiDAR would not work within its acrylic enclosure, which we later discovered was due to partial reflection off the acrylic. We also were not able to use the MIPI CSI cameras with YOLOv8 on the Jetson Nano, because of some driver issues. These combined to produce a non-integrated prototype with some band-aid solutions, so we fell back on presenting the functionality of each individual subsystem, which ended up going well. Despite this, our judges generally gave our project a good ranking, with most either awarding Excellent or Good marks in the rubric categories. We certainly have a lot of work to do before the Final Design Review, or FDR, especially to overcome these integration hurdles. Stay tuned to see how that pans out.