Final Review

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Final Review

Our final review is during Lecture time on Tue May 14.

We'll be joined by Carlos Cruz-Casas, MIT Office of Sustainability staff, PKG staff, and others.

The high-level goal for this review is to share your final design, some testing data, and some of the key design elements that went into the system.

Format

Your presentation should aim to be 30-45 min long.

More specifically, the team will want to present:

  • Overall system goal and requirements
  • Key finalized specifications (aka you don't need to have all specs listed just the major ones)
  • Final block diagrams of the HW, FW, and SW.
  • Circuit schematic (and PCB) for the HW
  • A demo of the web front-end, showing data being collected
  • Industrial design for the HW node, including key design decisions
  • For some of the key specifications, description of how you achieved that specification (such as a test, or component selection) along with data from tests
    • If any specification is not met, explicitly state it
  • BOM & COGS analysis assuming 100-unit quantitites
    • For COGS, you can estimate how long it takes to assemble the device, and then use a reasonable labor rate to estimate that cost
    • For 3DP, you can get online quotes
  • Power budget using measured values
  • Team roles

Documentation

In addition, in your team google drive folder, please place:

  • 2nd review presentation
  • Final review presentation
  • Any instructions for maintaining the server
  • Instructions for assembling the device
  • A document with links to the github repos for all code (FW, SW)
  • A complete specifications sheet (all specs listed), including documentation for how you achieved that specification
  • Schematics and layout files for all PCBs (you can instead link to their repos if you prefer)
  • STL files for housing

Presentation guidelines

  • You can present from a staff computer or your own.

  • It's not necessary for each team member to present, but it is also fine to do so.

  • Make the slides informative...and professional.

  • You are presenting to two different audiences: your customers (Miami-Dade, MITOS) and the course staff. Keep that in mind.