Before leaving Malawi I would tend to wonder about how we would spend our weekends in the Houston. Back home being as religious as I am I spend most of my time with fellow christian Seventh Day Adventists at church and generally doing other fun. It has been such a...
In the past week I joined Mikaela and Leah on the mechanical breast pump project. The project was in the prototyping phase so thats what we did for most of the week- work on simple prototype parts for the pump. We worked on few prototypes for the suction part of the...
This week we continued to work on our filament extruder. We spent time exploring the possibility of producing filament from other materials Trial We tested our filament extruder with ABS pellets and it was a resounding success so it was time to test the...
Week three has just finished and time really seems to be flying by. It seems to fly by also every day- as the time strikes 5pm I tend to be surprised that the its time to knock off from work. I think that shows how rewarding in general the work has been and for me...
The first time I heard about 3-D printing it seemed to me like listening to a science fiction story. So seeing one working for the first time was very exciting and even more exciting was the fact that I was actually going to get to build one! As the week began I was...
Preparation A few weeks ago I received a letter that had this small phrase “you and three others will go to rice university…”. It was quite hard to believe. To be still in university and to be a part of a global program to help solve the health...