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Travelling bot
For this project, along with an amazing team, we created a casing for a motor that would be able to carry one kilogram of weight vertically upward. The motor had an applied voltage of 5V, a 15.17 Motor-Robot speed ratio and 100:1 gear ratio with a 2.5A current supply. All parts were 3D printed out of PLA and along with extensive modeling in MATLAb, hand calculation estimates and testing we individually created a robot to carry the weight successfully!
Head Trauma Analysis
Head Trauma Analysis
This project, completed in my AeroAstro 252 course consisted of being assigned a position (my team and I's was that of the manufacturer in a head trauma case where we calculated the force of the fall and circumstanced to establish whether the details given by the accident victim aligned with the data of recreating the case. We completed the calculations with given assumption in an industry format report to present our case and argument.
Ergonomic box-cutter
Together with a team, we ideated, prototyped, tested and iterated on our design to design an ergonomic box cutter that would serve to alleviate carpel stress as well as wrist strain and designed it for extended use. We used principles of designing for accessibility as well as the design process ensuring to use accurate prototypes to test extensively on in order to ensure our prototype was useful and effective.
IKEA Stay-at-home-parent project
For this project, IKEA was our client and along with the team, we interviewed stay at home parents during the pandemic that were left to work around having their kids home all day and designed a furniture idea to support, in a small logistical way, the emotional and logistical difficulties they were experiencing. We decided on convertible furniture as our solution but you can read in more depth about the process, design and solution in the document linked below!
Designing a fitness experience for elders recovering from injury
this project consisted of exploring different exercise experiences in aging populations. My team and I chose to focus on those recovering from injury and looking to reintegrate into the world of exercise and movement. We spoke to lovely people (thank you Shanti) to learn first hand about the experience and then prototyped to find a solution which we designed to be an exercise jenga game named Build-A-Blocks which we created by laser cutting cardboard and printing vinyl stickers with prompts of movements. From the interview process to the end result we were able to learn to create a meaningful and feasible solution to a problem we came in knowing nothing about and hopefully created something to benefit aging populations redo veering from injury!
De-Boxed
through the use of Solidworks, Adobe Illustrator, rapid prototyping and eventually the use of hardware, and machine processing slabs of acrylic and hardwood, I produced a succulent holder with an adjustable acrylic panel to regulate light intake as well as an opening in the back to remove and water the plants with ease. I created this to gift to my mom inscribing 'Con Amor, para Mami' (with love, for Mom) on the top panel to add to her garden!
Clip-able
I created this book opener for my dad, as with age he said the cramps in his hands were worsening when he would try to hold a book open. Unfortunately this creation came about during the pandemic so it never came to life. But through the use of Solidworks, Adobe Illustrator, rapid prototyping and a background on the machining process I designed the product and system with analysis and consolidated it into a document you can access below!
Re-imagining Craigslist
in this project we were tasked to take on a more accessible version of a site we loved. Myself and a team of 3 others came together to create this project where we created prototypes utilizing user feedback and rapid, physical prototypes to imagine a version of the site that considered matters of accessibility and that would be more user friendly.
