…and we were an interdisciplinary engineering design team composed of mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering majors. What a journey IPPD has been for our team. Through the highs of getting our initial prototype to work and the lows of frying… Read More

This week the Gear Guardians presented their final design review presentation draft to a peer audience with teams Saline Sync and Electric Eye. They provided valuable feedback on the team’s testing plan diagrams and system overview slides. We are working… Read More

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… Read More

This week the Gear Guardians presented their system at prototype inspection day (PID) 2. We showcased a greatly improved system since last semester – all hardware is integrated and functionality was able to be demonstrated with one doorway system one… Read More

The team had a breakthrough this week by mounting the fully integrated RFID system and ultrasonic sensors to the doorway. This system is successfully able to detect the movement direction, the room, and the identity of one tagged object! Additionally,… Read More

This week the team had a much-needed workday during the class period to lead us into spring break week! The hardware integration is going smoothly with the RFID reader, antenna, and the Pico all connected to the Raspberry Pi. The… Read More

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… Read More

This week, the Gear Guardians presented their project progress during their Quarterly Review Board (QRB) 2 presentation. Each sub team’s accomplishments and next steps were presented to defend the timely completion of our project. The QRB board pointed out that… Read More

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… Read More

This week saw all of the sub teams begin to merge together as we work to integrate our product. Notably, the sensors team was able to control two ultrasonic sensors using a Raspberry Pi Pico to detect movement direction. The… Read More

Our team put in some serious lab time this week, and it has paid off! We reached some big milestones and have stayed on track with our project plan. The software team was able to connect the Raspberry Pi to… Read More

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… Read More

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.… Read More

Welcome back! The team had a wonderful semester break and returned this week eager to hit the ground running. Out first act of business focused on laying a strong foundation to pick up the progress on our project. We reviewed… Read More