Welcome back! This week the Gear Guardians had the privilege of attending a lecture by our very own liaison, Mary Alice Beck. She dove into the principles of the Agile methodology and practical applications for all types of engineering projects. We were inspired by her talk and immediately got to work implementing her ideas. First, we broke our workload down into main functionalities, and then we created a plan to work on each function parallel to each other – similar to a sprint in the Agile method. We anticipate that this breakdown will help us to stay organized and know what each member of the team is working on in the upcoming weeks.

Additionally, we made great progress in the mechanical model of our system. The first preliminary concept of our arm was 3-D printed, as well as the casing for the touch screen display. We ordered and picked up materials to begin constructing a model doorway to mount our system on for testing.