Week seven: July 22, 2016 Lucas Gutembergue da Costa This was the seventh and last week of the SEED internship program. We finished the design and tests of our projects and gave the final presentation on our progress. Team Toco spent Monday and Tuesday doing the final...
Week six: July 15, 2016 Lucas Gutembergue da Costa This week we kept working on the Optoco, our most recent prototype looks like this: Fig 1 – 3D printed box Fig 2 – Optoco prototype Figure 3 – Optoco prototype with the electronics We had to iterate...
Week five: July 7, 2016 Lucas Gutembergue da Costa This week was focused on the Optoco project, on Tuesday the nylon tubing we ordered arrived so we could finish the rubber accordion prototype, the picture is below: Figure 1 -Medium fidelity prototype with the rubber...
Week four: July 1, 2016 Lucas Gutembergue da Costa void OptocoUpdate(){ During this week I spent most of my time working on the Optoco with my team and we were able to accomplish a lot. On Monday we worked on the code that will run on the Arduino to detect the...
Week three: June 24, 2016 Lucas Gutembergue da Costa During this week I spent most of my time working with team Toco, which is composed by me, Nathalie, Zach and Chimwemwe. Our goal is to create a low-cost tocodynamometer that will be used in developing countries. A...
Week two: June 17, 2016 Lucas Gutembergue da Costa This week we finished the Engineering Design Bootcamp, generated the prototypes for the anteater enrichment device and started working on my major project for the summer. After going through the bootcamp I feel much...
Week one: June 10, 2016 Lucas Gutembergue da Costa Hi everyone, I’m Lucas Gutembergue da Costa, one of the SEED interns and a Brazilian Mechanical Engineering student. For the next 7 weeks I will be describing in this blog my experiences with the Summer...