We started off this week by testing out our prototype from last week to make sure it achieved our design criteria. Our first test was precision, where we assured that our device could get consistent measurements through several tests. We compared the precision of our...
This week was a bit shorter because of the holiday on Monday, but we still managed to make a lot of progress on our project. On Tuesday we used a Pugh Scoring Matrix to determine which brainstormed idea would be best for connecting to the patient’s upper forearm...
This week my team finished constructing all five of our prototypes for a method of measuring the forearm rotation angle. All five have two separate markers gliding over a central cylinder that are pushed by the rotation of the wrist. The final locations of these two...
This week was focused primarily on our major projects with a couple of breaks for engineering workshops. My team continued work on the forearm rotation device by first building a replica of the past team’s final prototype. We used their SolidWorks files to...
Week two is just wrapping up and it feels great to have settled into our teams and begin working on our main projects. The first half of the week was spent finishing up engineering boot camp and working on our anteater enrichment devices. Working with Karen and...
It has been a great first week here at the OEDK and its great to be back in Houston for the summer. I’ve been looking forward to this internship for the better part of three months, and it feels great to finally get started, though Houston summer weather may be...