This week, SyncAssist gave our SLDR presentation! After some last minute presentation fine-tuning with the help of our liaison Sriram, we were able to give our best presentation of this semester and really convey the work that we’ve put into… Read More

We’ve shifted gears back into IPPD mode this week, with the SLDR (System Level Design Review) Draft and peer review presentation both due this Tuesday! At 8300 words long, the SLDR report was definitely a beast to tackle, but we… Read More

Lots of exciting things for Team 5 this week! First, we presented our project progress to judges at Prototype Inspection Day (as seen above)! We showed off all of the video conferencing features that we’ve implemented, like screensharing, chat messaging,… Read More

This week, Team 5 has been working nonstop! We were able to implement screenshare in the Electron version of our app, have working mute and unmute buttons, display a participants list, and more! Here’s a snippet of what it looks… Read More

You might recall from last week’s post that we planned to pivot our app development to modifying the source code of Jitsi Meet. About an hour after the post was published, we made another pivot back to developing our app… Read More

This week has been full of planning and project discussions for Team 5. From last week, you may remember that we were having a bit of trouble working with Jitsi, primarily in getting any of our code to connect to… Read More

Team 5 is running into some roadblocks… In the last post, I mentioned that we started working on integrating Jitsi servers into our project by running it locally on Docker. Unfortunately, trying to get Jitsi to do what you want… Read More

This week, our team delivered our draft Preliminary Design Review Presentation for our peers for feedback and suggestions! Since we’ve had some practice in presenting this content for our liaisons Sriram and Jake beforehand, it overall went pretty smoothly and… Read More

This week, we’ve made some exciting progress on our project! First, we’ve finalized the architecture diagram for our project! Here’s a snippet of it: For the frontend, we’ve decided on React with TypeScript, along with Electron for the desktop app… Read More

It’s stormy season! Gainesville was hit by Hurricane Helene this week — fortunately, our team’s workflow hasn’t been too terribly disrupted by the storm. In the past week, we’ve started to make some concrete progress with our project. Using guidance… Read More

Lots of exciting events this week! First, we’ve finalized our team name and logo: we are officially Team SyncAssist! We’ve made adjustments to our logo based on our classmates’ feedback, and you can see our newest design below. The main… Read More

Team 5 is ready to rock and roll! This week, we had our first team meeting, where we decided on our team name and logo and discussed our team roles. Though our team name and logo are still in the… Read More

Hello, and welcome to our blog! We are Team 5, and we’re excited to work with our coach Dr. Christian Grant and our sponsor Freedom Scientific this year! Our project is to create a collaborative remote desktop system for the… Read More