Our team is still hard at work refining and manufacturing our final product this week. If you have been following along our blog posts, you’ve seen that our team has been inspired and empowered to push through our tasks as efficiently as possible. Because of this, we’ve had so many advancements that we won’t be able to detail them all in just one blog post!

To start, our computer team has been working on refining their algorithms and improving our automatic speech and phoneme detection to allow for easy updates after this project exits development. The mechanical team has been focusing on our sheet metal fabrication, as we’ll need access to some of the advanced machinery available at the Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence’s Open Prototyping Lab (or, the HWLEE OPL… but that isn’t much easier to say, is it?), including an OMAX Abrasive Waterjet. Our electrical team has also been coordinating the wiring harnesses for each of the birds and their internal components, while also taking the time to ensure all of our components are weatherproof and certified to the highest standards for reliability, especially in extreme heat and humidity. And with all of that being said, we can’t wait to share even more progress in two weeks after a restorative Spring “break”!