It’s our last week here at the OEDK, as SEED is finally coming to an end. Team Toco spent most of this week doing some last testing on our fiber optic before we hand off the project to Dr. Carns. Our main goal for testing this week was determining the minimum...
We started off this week with lots of prototyping and testing our latest boxes. This week, we’ve officially transferred away from laser cut wooden boxes and started using exclusively 3D printed boxes to house our electronics and fiber optics. We’ve been...
After having Monday off for the 4th of July, Team Toco made good progress the rest of the week. On Tuesday, we spent most of the day prototyping and testing our two ideas for the mechanical aspect of the toco: the rubber accordion and the sewing elastic (pictured...
We made more good progress this week on the Optoco, and gave our first formal presentation on our progress. On Monday, we spent most of the day working on the code to analyze the number and frequency of contractions measured by the Optoco. Using an Arduino, we were...
Third week of SEED is just wrapping up, and Team Toco is already making good progress on our design. We spent Monday doing more research, then moved on to define the design criteria for our project. In the afternoon, we started brainstorming possible solutions —...
Just finished week two of SEED, and we’ve officially started working on our main projects for the summer! We spent the first half of the week finishing up engineering bootcamp and our anteater enrichment devices. My team (Team Ants Ants Revolution!) came up with...
This was our first week working at the OEDK! We started off the week on Tuesday with some icebreaker activities to introduce everyone, and I finally got to meet the interns coming in from Malawi and Brazil. I live in Houston, just a few miles from campus, so it was...