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
Tag: PDR
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