This is the last week of the Summer Experience in Engineering Design internship. We had two major goals for the week: test with the actual user to analyze the success or failure of our device, and give a final presentation showing both what we’ve been doing this...
This week we finally finished our prototype and got to testing! Going into this week we were on prototype number 8 (below) which was a refined harness. Basically we perfected how we wanted the straps on the actual float. We also added a large pool noodle along the...
This week we worked on testing out a few ideas at the pool and then moving forward with what we wanted for the final design. Since we test every Tuesday and Thursday and we had the day off on Monday for the 4th of July, we worked really hard on Friday of last week to...
This is a makeup post from last week as I thought I had blogged but I guess I didn’t. Throughout this week we worked on creating early prototypes to play with the idea of positioning in the water and how we wanted to work. Here’s a summary of our...
So we are now about a week into our project. We went to the recreation center pool on Monday to test the previous design. We discovered the failures of the previous design and how we can improve it. Afterwards we started the engineering design process: research,...
So today wraps up the second week of SEED. We finished the anteater project on Tuesday, having completed the Engineering Design Process. My team (originally generically named “Team #2” and changed to “Team Octothorp Anteaters”) came up with the...
Fun fact about anteaters: they have tongues that cab be up two feet long! Check out the video I took at the Houston Zoo below. Right now I have seven tabs open about giant anteaters and let me say, if you ever need an adorable video to watch, look up giant anteater...