After two weeks of intensive preparation, we finally gave both our Preliminary Design Report and the respective presentation to the FPL liaisons. The PDR was a 53-page culmination of our ideas, research, and individual contributions over the last 8 weeks. In this document, we comprehensively detailed everything we’ve learned about the problem and how we’re going to approach it with our solution.  

We took the feedback from the PDR Peer Review presentation seriously and incorporated it into our practice sessions. The actual presentation was 12 minutes longer than the peer review, so we had a lot more time to be thorough with our technical explanations. The FPL team were extremely impressed by our hard work and design ideas, which was very pleasing to hear especially since we put in a lot of late nights to develop these. 

Moving forward, we’re going to start the most exciting part of this project, the development process. Everyone will be taking the next few weeks to write code, design 3D models, and plan out wiring diagrams for our intelligent housing structure. Although we must keep the details of this process under wraps, we’ll be sharing some background information about the general concepts and technologies we’re using for our design through these blogs. Stay tuned!