We’re finally in the home stretch! This week has been all about FDR preparation and final bug fixes for SyncAssist. Last week, we mentioned some strange things happening with the audio quality on mobile. It turns out that when screensharing… Read More

Though we’re less than two weeks away from FDR, it seems like Team 5 still has a lot of work to do! This week, our liaison Sriram came into town to see a live demo of our mobile app, and… Read More

Things are heating up for SyncAssist! With only two and a half weeks left until our Final Design Review, we definitely have our work cut out for us. This week, we showcased our app at Prototype Inspection Day and despite… Read More

After a restful spring break, SyncAssist is ready to finish strong! This week, we focused on merging any open pull requests from before break and fixing small bugs before our Prototype Inspection Day. On the desktop side, we added some… Read More

This week for SyncAssist has been all about mobile remote control! Based on our discussion with our liaison engineers on how mobile remote control should work, we’ve since worked on two main modes of control: gesture control, and keyboard control.… Read More

This week, SyncAssist has gone all in on mobile! We were able to implement video tracks and audio tracks in the app, allowing users to send and receive media streams from other users, as well as the chat and participants… Read More

This week, SyncAssist has been hard at work. On Tuesday, we presented our current prototype and testing plan to the QRB 2 committee, where we received valuable feedback from our coach Dr. Grant and other IPPD coaches about our scope… Read More

After last week’s fiasco, we’d figured that things could only get better from here on out. And better indeed they did get! This week, we honed in on improving the performance of our app by fixing any state-related bugs and… Read More

Over the past week, mobile development has been going swimmingly. We managed to get the mobile development environment set up properly on all our team members’ devices and started making basic screens allowing users to make new conference rooms and… Read More

This week, SyncAssist has been doing a pretty heavy overhaul of our code! To start our mobile development work, we realized that several of the functions and states that we would be using for our conference handling would have to… Read More

With most of our major presentations out of the way for now, SyncAssist is now ready to start our major project for this semester: development of our mobile app! As mentioned in Week 15, we’d decided to use the Expo… Read More

Our long-awaited trip has arrived! This week, we traveled to Clearwater, FL to pitch our project to the directors and employees at Vispero. To prepare for the presentation, we drove down the day before and arrived at our hotel in… Read More

SyncAssist is back from break and hitting the ground running! This past week, we’ve been fleshing out our plans for this semester, preparing for our visit to Freedom Scientific’s office in Clearwater, and cleaning up our code. Finally, the long… Read More