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Design & Prototyping Project
Design & Prototyping Project
Project Overview: This assignment involves designing and prototyping a device, focusing on either Assistive Devices or 3D-Printed Product Design. The project aims to incorporate Computer-Aided Design into the engineering design process while utilizing problem-solving, prototyping, and iterative design principles. Students will gain hands-on experience in CAD-based design, rapid prototyping, and user-centered engineering while contributing to open-source innovation or commercial design opportunities.
Project Overview: This assignment involves designing and prototyping a device, focusing on either Assistive Devices or 3D-Printed Product Design. The project aims to incorporate Computer-Aided Design into the engineering design process while utilizing problem-solving, prototyping, and iterative design principles. Students will gain hands-on experience in CAD-based design, rapid prototyping, and user-centered engineering while contributing to open-source innovation or commercial design opportunities.
Topic: Assistive Devices
Topic: Assistive Devices
Millions of individuals living with disabilities, degenerative diseases, or recovering from injuries face challenges in various aspects of daily life, including personal care, mobility, household tasks, arts, music, and sports. This project involves designing and prototyping assistive devices that aim to alleviate these challenges, empowering users to lead more independent and fulfilling lives.
Millions of individuals living with disabilities, degenerative diseases, or recovering from injuries face challenges in various aspects of daily life, including personal care, mobility, household tasks, arts, music, and sports. This project involves designing and prototyping assistive devices that aim to alleviate these challenges, empowering users to lead more independent and fulfilling lives.
Key Requirements:
Key Requirements:
• Identify a specific challenge faced by individuals with disabilities or injuries.
• Identify a specific challenge faced by individuals with disabilities or injuries.
• Research existing solutions and identify areas for improvement or innovation.
• Research existing solutions and identify areas for improvement or innovation.
• Design a device that addresses the identified challenge using CAD software.
• Design a device that addresses the identified challenge using CAD software.
• Create an initial prototype using 3D printing.
• Create an initial prototype using 3D printing.
• Evaluate the prototype's effectiveness and iterate the design based on testing.
• Evaluate the prototype's effectiveness and iterate the design based on testing.
• Share the finalized CAD files on an open-source platform to ensure accessibility for users and developers (Open-source Creative Commons license for public use).
• Share the finalized CAD files on an open-source platform to ensure accessibility for users and developers (Open-source Creative Commons license for public use).
For children with Acute Flaccid Myelitis and other paralyzing conditions, accessing treatments can be costly and sometimes impossible. This project serves as a contribution towards fixing this problem, by creating a low cost and effort, but nonetheless effective, aid to help young children to move their arms again. With this cost, the chances of rehabilitation is almost impossible for most children. So, this device aims to increase their otherwise low chances of moving their arm again. This device is a robotic assistive aid that helps to exercise the paralyzed arms of young children. As the most effective way to promote paralysis recovery is to consistently practice moving the affected body parts, this aid aims to do exactly that. The device is a simple 8 component assembly, consisting of a 3D printed part that goes around the child’s upper arm and remains fixed, a smaller printed part that cups around their forearm, a printed rod to serve as a hinge, and the actuator with its mounting screws and their respective hex nuts. The linear actuator is angled in a way such that when a button is pressed, it pushes the forearm casing from a ninety degree angle to a one hundred and eighty degree angle, and then back to this initial perpendicular position when pushed again. The mounting points for the actuator are flat and calculated to achieve this smooth arc motion.www.thingiverse.com/thing:6558607Thingiverse page with all STL files, assembly instructions, printer settings, off-the-shelf parts, and design rationale.
Design and Prototyping ProjectDocumentation describing the problem statement, design requirements, constraints, models and lessons learned.
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