16 Jan, 2019

Principles and Practices: Project ideation week!


In this assigment we should decide what we want to do as a project. Neil Gershenfeld the fab academy director, shared with us during the online session examples of what we can do for our projects, and showed us the pass years alumnas's projects.

For me I decided to do A 3D scanning set for the handheld 3D scanner. A robotic arm will be attached to a circular field to control the rotation of the 3D scanner around the object automatically using a remote control. The objective of this project is to help patients with limb loss to scan their limbs and fabricate for them an artifical limb that has similar characteristics to their old limb. The objectives of this project are:

1.     Portobal 3D scannin set.
2.     Scan syrian refugees body's limbs.
3.     Digital fabricate artificial limbs.
4.     Cheap Option to Buy form the market.

In order to achieve these objectives different design goals were setted. These desingns goals will help me in fabricating my project in a very work oriented way. The projects design goals:

1.     Design and fabricate tripod arm, and holder, to hold the 3D scanner.
2.     Design and fabricate a circular rail for the 3D scanner to travel around the 3D object.
3.     Design and fabricate a table or box to hold the 3D scanning set.
4.     Control the system automatically using a mobile app.
5.     Work on making the entire system portable.

There is a huge chance that not all designs goals might be achieved during Fab Academy. However, I will work in the future to achieve all project objectives and goals.