This week was a productive one for our team. On Tuesday, we presented our first Qualification Review Board. We successfully presented and defended our production plan. The judges gave us useful feedback about mitigating risks, and ultimately determined we were on track to reach our goals and complete our project. The rest of the week was filled with many, many hours spent in the lab.

Our RFID team was able to interface with the RFID reader and antenna, running software and pulling tag IDs in a CSV format. They were also able to communicate and send this data to the Raspberry Pi Pico. Our microcontroller team began interfacing the ultrasonic sensors with the Pico, as well as working on the communication protocols between the Pico and Raspberry Pi. The software team successfully set up an SQL database and worked on implementing logic to write to and read from it in the user interface. Finally, the mechanical team finished printing the first round of mounting equipment and constructed a wooden doorframe that we will use as a test environment. We are excited for all of our progress and can’t wait to see what comes next! Go Gear Guardians!