Today the groups had their first prototype evaluation. The roof group sketched their entire system on the white board so that Dr. Saterbak could easily see how all of the components of the system fit together. We learned the sensors originally ordered were volume dependent which would not be good for the roof (since the roof has different size trays), and so new sensors had to be ordered. A large part of prototyping is testing components to see if they actually work the way you want them too. Sometimes they don’t, and you have to start over and try something else. The group still has electronics that need to be connected to the computer, and so the last weeks of school will be devoted to synthesizing all of the components together.

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