In order to provide the team with somewhat of an understanding of the mass, ergonomics, and technological limitations of the prototype, primary components such as antennae, radios, interfaces and microcontrollers must be researched and sourced. This will prevent overspending, as well as allow the team to sketch a preliminary design for the prototype, taking into consideration multiple paths for layouts and interfacing.

Next, the team must begin to assemble the primary components in such a fashion as to allow for initial testing of the multipathing concept and the writing of a program that can harness the aforementioned concept. This will be done before purchasing supporting components and packaging the prototypes, as testing and streamlining will likely result in a more compact unit, and it will be easier to address potential bugs or hardware issues with the units being disassembled. At the same time, any of the originally intended layouts can be edited or scrapped as they are eliminated and streamlined.

At this point, secondary components such as mounts, cables and wireless receivers should be purchased, unless they had been bought earlier to aid in Stage 2. This will allow for the final assembly of the product, and the packaging into whatever layout and housing that is decided upon.