After the coach meeting this week, Virginia took the lead on teaching a crash course on how to use GitHub to collectively edit code for the psychrometric chart programs. Virginia’s efforts have made tremendous progress on the code for the psychrometric charts and is almost ready for testing with our Raspberry Pi unit. In related news, the Raspberry Pi and humidity/temperature sensors came in!

During the liaison meeting the team had a lot of ground to cover to make up for missing Homecoming week, but no good meeting can start without donuts. The team supplemented their weekly coffee with donuts before diving right into discussing the upcoming PDR presentation. The team talked with Dr. MacIntosh about finding a room to have the presentation in and what FSHN faculty would be interested in attending. Once that was solved, the team moved on to the big topic of the day: load cells!

The team discussed various load cell configurations and the instrumentation options available to make them possible. The load cells are the last instrument the team has to finalize, but they made great work on avenues to explore. The team also showed the current SolidWorks model of the system assembly to Dr. MacIntosh; this segued into a discussion of getting all the major components of the system ordered before the holidays. With this goal in mind, the team will focus on narrowing down a parts list and creating a comprehensive Bill of Materials as soon as possible.

To end the meeting, Dr. MacIntosh took the DesiGators on a short tour of the pilot plant, where we all sampled a “GatorBev” produced by his undergraduate students. Tasty, refreshing, and the perfect ending to a productive meeting!

Photos by: Korynn Haetten