Welcome to the team Electric Eye blog post for the week of 4/11! This week has been all about putting the finishing touches on our design and getting everything situated for our Final Design Review (FDR). The team has spent much of this week discussing our plans for FDR along with completing the necessary documentation. Our project is nearly finalized, so now its time to prepare our results.
FDR Documentation And Presentation
As stated just before, this week was about discussing our plans for FDR, which means we’ve spent a good amount of time discussing the logistics behind it. We’ve finalized how we want to write our documentation and are actively preparing our presentation. Beyond our results, we’ve also received plenty of feedback this week on our product video and our poster! So far, we have gotten lots of feedback, which has been a great reinforcement of our ideas. Our poster (seen to the right) has gotten positive results from our fellow classmates thus far. The poster was inspired by our device’s our own UI, we thought it would be a great way to connect our device to the poster’s design while also being able to effectively communicate ideas-very much like our UI’s goal. We also want to thank Kate for coming up with this great idea, and our liaison and coach for helping us to refine it! For our video, we have some re-filming we want to do, but we are happy with the feedback we got for the general flow of our video and the story we are portraying. These will be both receive some more alteration ahead of FDR.
What We Accomplished
With the team as a whole being very close to our finished prototype, much more focus this week was put towards preparations for FDR, but we still have some progress to share! This week, as we go through the process of testing our device, we have been focusing on final steps for the complete startup/shutdown of our device. This is one of our final steps to complete device integration, which means we are nearly finished with our prototype! Through the prototype is nearly finished, the 3D printed we order has been stopped for a moment due to some issues with the printer. So while we wait for that, some alterations have been made to our original print to get everything into the device (seen to the left). With this we’ve been able to do some final testing of our device. Other developments made have been more bug fixing of our device’s along with setting up the elements to help with the startup/shutdown process of our device. The AI team has been gathering final datasets and are preparing to do a final round of training!
Next week is our peer-reviewed FDR presentation, so the team will have plenty of great feedback to work off of moving into our final week of development in IPPD! Thank you for reading this week’s blog post from team Electric Eye!