As we approach manufacturing, our team is still hard at work finishing our mechanical and scenic design work to prepare for sourcing. Although most of our team is proficient in SolidWorks, sometimes a good, old-fashioned cardboard mockup is the best way to effectively communicate our ideas.

The mechanical team is deep in final calculations to verify our designs for production. While there aren’t too many details ready to share, we’re excited to get working in UF’s manufacturing lab. On the other side of the room, the computer team has set up our Nvidia Jetson Nano and is running through the initial programming prototype that was created last month. Now that we’re out of simulation and on real hardware, debugging and testing is much faster! The scenic team is making arrangements with our vendors to get sample swatches and materials sent to the IPPD labs. A busy week indeed!