Can’t believe we got one more week to go, how time flies.
Me and my teammates really looked forward to the beginning of this week as we had a meeting with our main Client Dr Schmeyler and her team at the Bioscience Research collaborative on Tuesday 07/11 from which we were to get the final feedback on the successful progress of our designs for the cervical models. Spent the whole Monday preparing for the meeting and it Involved;
- Printing all selected top four Solid works files for each stage of cancer development
- Designing and laser cutting the model holder
- Test the selected precancerous and cancerous models for color change
- Compile all Information we need to acquire from the client
After presenting the models and demonstrated the color change replicating the VIA procedure we got a positive feedback from the Dr Schmyler and her team, they love the color changing mechanism we used on the models and wish to implement the cervical models in their VIA training program this coming September.
Our client also pointed out some points that we can work on to improve the Realistic of the models and the prolong the color duration to at least 3 minutes to facilitate the Training time requirement to demonstrate the VIA to the Healthcare Practitioners in the developing countries.
Improvements
Spent the rest of the week working on SolidWorks, Printing 3D models and conducting experiments with the aim to address our clients area of improvement suggestions for the models texture, outlook and the color change duration.
Conducted an experiment to determine the actual temperature of hot water used for the color change will stop activating the low heat sensitive thermochlomic pigments. From this experiment we realised that the color change duration decreases as the temperature of the water drops, which lead to another experiment on maintaining the high temperature of the hot water during the training session for an hour as pointed out by our client to facilitate the longer color change necessary.
Tested the temperature drop of water in a regular Mug and an Insulating Tumbler, the insulating tumbler had a decrease rate of 1.5 degree Fahrenheit per 4 minutes while the Mug had an average drop of 13 degree fahrenheit per 4 minutes. Hence keeping the hot water in an insulating tumbler will provide us with the required temperature to facilitate a longer duration of the color change for a whole one hour VIA Training session.
Finally started working on the final prototypes and presentation document of the project to be presented on 07/20.
finished up the week by doing a surprise workshop with the TA’s, printing out tshirts which was really