After coming off an exciting week of travel and presentations, our team began shifting gears to focus on the prototyping process. On Tuesday, we attended a lecture about prototypes and began the discussion for our next big deadline and event: Prototype Inspection Day (PID). During this period, we had time to discuss our goals and what we want to present at PID. Most of our discussion thus far has been at an overall system-interaction level, but now we are tasked with getting into the details of the technology components and how to create them.

Because our system is complex and requires integration between many different parts, we are splitting into hardware and software sub-teams. Connor, Isaac and Lucas are part of the hardware sub-team, Lyndsey, Victoria and Joseph are part of the software sub-team, and Michael is part of both, using his electrical engineering expertise to help integrate the mechanical design with the electronics and software. For the PID, we hope to have a model of our physical device, as well as a wireframe mock-up of the user interface that we will be implementing. Our team is excited to start working with the new technology and lean into the design process. Some of the best advice we have gotten so far is to embrace failure and document everything, and we will use this to guide us as we being the next phase of product and process design.