FDR Presentation Preparation (Week 15)

With the project wrapping up, we need to showcase all of our work and progress to our sponsor, FPL. Therefore, one of our objectives this week was the drafting of the FDR (Final Design Review) Report and Presentation. Unlike the SLDR from last semester, whose objective was to provide a concise overview of the work performed, the expectations of the FDR report are to provide complete and total documentation of all progress, discoveries, tests, and failures (the FDR presentation still shares the SLDR goal of being information efficient). After completing the presentation and some practice, we partook in the FDR Peer Review event, along with the Splunkernauts, CyberSign, and Fantastic 5 teams. In this event, each team presented to the other teams, and received feedback forms from all audience members. This gives an opportunity to make any necessary adjustments before the presentation with real stakes. Also this week, substantial progress was made on the prototyping and integration front. Evidence of this can be seen below, where the assembled Detection and Alert systems are shown. With next week being the FDR, it will be our last post. Be sure to come back and read it!

The Alert subsystem (the black enclosure on the left) and the Detection subsystem (the white pill-shaped enclosure on the cone). On the left is Billy, who is holding the Alert subsystem, and on the right is Skyler.

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