Welcome to the team Electric Eye blog post for the week of 11/1! Today is the first day of a new month, which also marks an important point in our project. With a little more than a month left in the semester, our team is starting to dive into our deliverables for the PID and SLDR. Our team has divided itself up into sub-teams to tackle the different parts of our project, allowing each member to contribute in the best way that they are able to. This next month will be pretty busy for us as we begin to develop prototypes and build the first parts of our device.

New Changes

As our project develops, we’ve set time in our plan for any potential changes that may come to our preliminary design. This week, we had an opportunity to discuss a technology our team was interested in using for this project with industry experts so that we could find the best usage of it. Our questions gave us some great insight into the technology, and also helped us see many of the issues we would encounter while developing with it. Luckily for our team, we had already made backup plans for this aspect of our device and have been able to switch rather quickly before we had much time to develop. We are thankful for the advice given by the industry experts at FPL who gave us this helpful information! Our timeline for the rest of the semester gives us plenty of time to prototype and test with our new technology, and we are excited to get started!

Next week, our team will be giving a small presentation on our testing plan in class while we continue to work towards Prototype Inspection Day. Thanks for reading this week’s post from team Electric Eye!