This week, we gave our System Level Design Review presentation to an audience filled with our liaisons, sponsors, and other students and IPPD faculty. It has been a long and challenging semester, but it felt great to step up there… Read More
Refining the Vision – FALL WEEK 13
This week, our team made significant progress as we moved closer to the System Level Design Review (SLDR). We finished the draft of the SLDR report and presentation, summarizing our system architecture, prototype functionality, and overall design direction. With the… Read More
Wiring It Together – FALL WEEK 12
This week, our team continued refining the details of our system as we prepare for the upcoming System-Level Design Review (SLDR). We updated the hardware description, electrical interfaces, and housing considerations to ensure everything stays aligned with our system requirements.… Read More
Showtime! (at PID) – Fall Week 11
This week marked an exciting milestone as we completed our initial prototype and presented it at Prototype Inspection Day (PID). After weeks of design, testing, and iteration, it was rewarding to finally showcase a functional demonstration of our wearable alert… Read More
Loading… – FALL WEEK 10
This week continued our preparation for the Prototype Inspection Day, where we’ll be giving a brief presentation to a panel of judges demonstrating basic functionality for how our product may work. Our team has been busy creating 3D models and… Read More
“Bring me to life…. (wake me up!)” – FALL WEEK 9
This week marks the beginning of prototyping and the road to the SDLR. Our team’s main focus is configuring an Arduino Nano 33 IoT module to show basic functionality, which just arrived today (Friday, October 24th). Now we can finally… Read More
Preliminary Design Review – FALL WEEK 8
On Tuesday, the Awearables team met at the Gainesville FDOT Operations Center to present our Preliminary Design Report and demonstrate our progress. We presented four concepts, discussed our project plan for going forward, and considered further research we may need… Read More
Red light, green light!! – Fall Week 7
Only a few more days until our PDR! It’s only been five weeks since the team formed and began work, but so much has happened it’s hard to believe it hasn’t even been two months. This week, we narrowed our… Read More
Concept Generation… more of it… and more of it… – FALL WEEK 6
For the last month, our team has focused our concept generation on the notion that our device had to be PPE-attachable and as unobtrusive to the responsibilities and duties of roadside workers as possible. However, our sponsor brought up an… Read More
Concept Generation, Part 2 – Fall week 5
This week, we finished the first draft of our preliminary design review (PDR) report. This report is the culmination of our work so far, and includes our background research, product design specifications, most promising concepts, and project plan. The concepts… Read More
Concept Generation – Fall Week 4
This week, we jumped into research and concept generation! We currently have a few lightly-developed concepts to explore, including one where LEDs and audio speakers are mounted to the brim of a hard hat for audio and visual alerts, one… Read More
Team Name and Logo – Fall Week 3
Things are ramping up! This week, we finalized our team name, The Awearables, and our team logo. We decided on our final name and logo from a few preliminary ideas as a group; these preliminary ideas can be seen at… Read More
New Beginnings – Fall Week 2
The FDOT wearables team is together and ready to go! This Tuesday, we met for the first time during class and began learning about the project from its Scope of Work. We also started work on our team name, logo,… Read More