This week saw a guest lecturer presenting on the “heART of Storytelling” which helped put the team in the mindset to create a promotional video for our product. While this product is primarily intended for laboratory facility applications, we have already received comments from coaches and students saying that they would love our system to be implemented in their own house! We intend to assess the system usability, aesthetics, and future applications via a third-party usability survey which was developed and approved by our faculty mentor and industry liaisons this week.

The team was able to interface the RFID reader to the Raspberry Pi via the Pico. With the implementation of the serial converter, the Pi is now receiving the tag data for tags detected by the antenna. Additionally, new sophisticated ultrasonic sensors arrived that should help the team address the sensor testing shortcomings from the previous week. A PCB will be created once these sensors are incorporated with the current code. The software has been updated to address customer requests with the map page foundation being implemented in our user interface. The construction of a second system has commenced this week and will be finished by next week for the team to begin integration testing. Go Gear Guardians!