Hello IPPD,

This week, we made the exciting shift from just picking a concept to actually building out the system architecture and gearing up for our Preliminary Design Review. We rolled up our sleeves and started breaking the idea into subsystems, figuring out how everything connects and works together. Along the way, we talked through trade-offs, brainstormed solutions to possible challenges, and made sure our design still checks all the boxes for customer needs. It was a good mix of problem-solving and creativity, and it really helped us see how our concept will function as a complete system. By the end, we had a clearer game plan and a solid foundation to present for our PDR. It feels like the project is really starting to come together. We spent many late hours working on our designs, but it will pay off in the end. Right now it seems we are going to hone in on a 4-champer design for testing 4 different food samples at once.