After deciding that our final solution would consist of four plastic cervices that use temperature sensitive pigment as the color changing mechanism, we began using three methods of prototyping. In the past week we have made more than 30 cervical models. We began by designing cervices on solid works and 3d printing them. Next we made several clay models that we then 3d scanned and 3d printed. Lastly, we made silicon rubber molds out of clay cervices that were then filled with liquid plastic. It was a lot of fun to make all kinds of textures on the cervical models using all three methods. After making the templates for the cervices with different stages of cancer, we had to begin mixing different paints to achieve a realistic pink color. We tried so many combinations and we are now kind of confused about which shade of pink looks best! Using all these shades of pink, and red we painted all of our models. We are trying to get our models to look as realistic as possible but this is challenging with our limited painting skills. Also, all cervices are different in their own way so it is hard to make a model that is completely representative of all cervices. Lastly, we tried the thermochromic paint on our models and IT WORKED!!!! We are super excited about this and we will meet with Sonia to get feedback on our progress. We hope to move on to higher fidelity prototypes next week. We also had presentations this week which went pretty well. Everyone has made a lot of progress!

Apart from our project, we have all been making a bunch of really cool stuff on the 3d printers! When I’m not printing cervixes, I love printing other things for example a rainbow octopus. I’m excited to print everything my heart desires!