For our the prototype inspection day, Team Power House has much to show! We have been working hard on designs, and we will be presenting one large prototype in hopes of acquiring useful feedback. We plan to present our charging system, our user interface wireframes, the computer vision (CV) system, and our physical structure with a moving door. This week, our team is currently building all of the physical components and refining the software based ones.  

For quicker and easier prototyping, the structure will be made of wood. While wood is not the most appealing material, we hope to achieve a high visual prototype in this regards. This week, the team will be focusing on cutting and assembling each piece of plywood in a way which provides the most stability of the structure. We decided that for the charging system, we would 3D print some of the components so that we would have full customizability. These will be assembled with the ordered parts to produce a useable charging system for Prototype Inspection Day. The user interface and the computer vision system will both be presented virtually through a shared screen function. The goal with these is to immerse the viewer into our system, as if they were actually in the CV system or using these high level wireframes! We hope to gain feedback from the judges on the user-friendliness and readability aspects of our user interface.  

All of these items will be used, or developed, for our final prototype in the spring semester. We wanted to ensure we used quality parts up front so that we would not waste money or have to majorly rework any components. We hope to continuously improve upon our prototype and our final design through these demonstrations!