Week 7: HANDing off our Prosthetic

Week 7: HANDing off our Prosthetic

Hope everyone’s doing well! This week we finally finished organizing our files, presentation, poster, and presented our final project at the 2022 Internship Innovation Showcase! It was a very busy and a little stressful week, but it was all worth it once we...

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Week 6: TroubleSHOOTING :/

Week 6: TroubleSHOOTING :/

How’s everyone doing? Week 6 just finished and we’re making the final touches on our prosthetic hand! As we make our way to the last few weeks of the internship, we began finalizing some of our edits and modifications for our model. This week we finished...

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Week 5: Game Time!

Week 5: Game Time!

What’s up everyone? It’s the end of week 5 and this week was the most fun week yet! This week we continued making modifications to our prosthetic hand and began testing our model. A big modification we began working on was the gauntlet redesign, as we...

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Week 4: HANDling Business

Week 4: HANDling Business

How’s everyone been? We just wrapped up with our 4th week and continued making edits to our prosthetic hand for Eric Jr. and brainstormed areas of improvement to our original prosthetic hand. This week flew by, however we were still able to get a lot of work...

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Week 3: New Fingerprints?

Week 3: New Fingerprints?

Hi everyone! We’re just wrapping up with our 3rd week and it’s really exciting to see the progress our team is making. This week went by really quick, especially since we had Monday off which was nice. Despite being a shorter week, our team still got a lot...

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Week 2: Raise Your Hand!

Week 2: Raise Your Hand!

Hi everyone! After meeting with Eric Jr. and Arinze, president of Rice’s e-NABLE chapter, last week, our team quickly got to work. We decided that e-NABLE’s Kinetic Hand model was the most appropriate for our project, and began printing multiple different...

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Week 1: Lending a Helping Hand!

Week 1: Lending a Helping Hand!

Hi! My name is JJ Tellez and I am a rising Junior studying Bioengineering at Rice University. This summer I’ll be interning at the OEDK, working on a project with 2 great teammates, Shreya Jindal and Alex David. I am very excited this summer to work alongside my...

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