Towards the very end of the internship, our team made a lot of progress, and overall we are quite happy with our results. Our final prototype is complete and functional, despite lacking two features we wanted to implement: the new user interface and the perfboard. The...
Week 4.5 Un-Fried Screens and Vertical Boxes
Perfboard Week 4 was shortened because of the long holiday weekend for the 4th of July, but it was still productive! This week, we finally, finally got the complete circuit working!! So, I transferred it all to a perfboard, which is a more permanent, soldered-on...
Week 3.5– Circuit Theory and Glue Monsters
The Box This week, our team shifted our design plan. Instead of using a thermos, lunchbox, or other pre-made container as our heating chamber, we decided to build our own. This is the first prototype of our two-chambered device. The smaller section (front) is the...
Week 2.5: Smoke and CAD
Intro Over the past week and a half, the program really got going. We are now almost halfway through the internship, and it has gone by so fast. After the initial process of finding our footing with the previous prototypes, we sort of split into two parallel segments,...
Week 1: Pterodactyls and 1600 Lines of Code
Intro When I arrived at the OEDK at 9am on Monday, the most exciting thing as I walked through the doors was seeing everyone’s faces. Since then, we have had in-person workshops with speakers and every day I’ve been able to sit at a table with my...