This week we spent a lot of time discussing what our prototype presentation was going to look like. Because our project is much more research and development than the other projects, we needed to find a way to present our work in the midst of other teams.

We decided to present our project as a design platform that can determine the demisability of different component housing designs. To do this we finalized our CAD model down to the last detail and decided what parameters to test in Ansys.

We aim to get at least one baseline Kriging model done before PID to show how this design platform can show demisability of different designs using machine learning and learn how this type of modeling work.

Over the past week our electrical system has changed, we finally got a quote for how much the frangibolt (release mechanism for the flaps) costs and it was way over our budget, so we changed the scope of our electronic system to use servo motors rather then the frangibolts as a way to release the flaps. We also have started ordering some of our electronical components so we are excited for them to come in so we can start breadboarding them.

We hope to learn more about our judges soon and hope we impress them with our work!