This week saw our team’s first attempt at a full physical system integration. While we still have a way to go in getting all of the hardware communicating with each other, it was great for us to finally visualize what we had only seen in sketches up until this week. Each sub team is continuing to work hard on integrating their hardware with the microcontroller. The RFID team found that a serial converter would best serve to enable microcontroller/reader communication. The microcontroller team was able to improve the ultrasonic sensor logic to read directionality approximately 90% of the time. This will be essential when determining the direction people will be walking through a doorway. The software team integrated the frontend/database as well as enabled inputs from the microcontroller. Finally, the mechanical team assembled the full system to the false doorway to realize our design concepts.

With the serial converter received, the team will finally be able to fully integrate all hardware components together to create our second system iteration. We plan to have this completed by the week of March 3rd. Go Gear Guardians!