This week the team presented their project to the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce at the local Cade Museum’s Annex. Surrounded by vintage cars and “the world’s largest calliope”, the team gave an overview of the project problem, solution, and next steps to local business owners. It is through these business owners and company sponsors that make the IPPD program possible – we would like to thank them for supporting Florida’s up-and-coming engineers. It was refreshing to hear the fresh perspectives of local business leaders. The team was given valuable points to consider as we prepare for our final design review presentation in less than two weeks.

Unfortunately, the team ran into an issue with the RFID reader. Despite it visibly containing two antenna ports, it can only read one RFID antenna at a time. The team swiftly ordered a new one which will be implemented next week. Even though end-to-end testing has been postponed, the team was able to make progress in other project areas including conducting after scenario questionnaire (ASQ) and system usability score (SUS) user studies on the user interface. Through this, we received valuable feedback on our UI design which will be addressed as we finish out the project. It was suggested that we conduct the survey on a non-technical audience as well. We are approaching our last full week. Go Gear Guardians!