Update 10/27/15

This Saratoga student has a hand, but that doesn't mean he can't wear ours. Paul and Mr. Gallagher discussed plans for the lock. Today we finally took our quizzes on the presentations so our productive time was shorter, however, we still managed to get some tasks done. The hand group printed out another hand in full size that we will ship out soon. The hand group also got some more emails sent out to doctors and will got some meetings...

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Update 10/24/15

Yesterday was an exciting class for both groups. Our project manager Max selflessly postponed our quizzes which allowed everyone to get a lot done. In the hand group, Ross, Cameron, Gray and Adam worked on one of the 3D printers and are preparing a hand to send out to Enable. Andrew and Reese emailed twelve doctors to see if we could meet with them to talk about our prosthetic hands and to find out what issues are with current prosthetic hands. Steve and Jackson continued to do research and come up with ideas for the project. Hannah, Maddie and...

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Update 10/21/15

What a time to be alive. Today was a very exciting day for the EDD class. Both groups have now finished their initial presentations and are getting started on their real work. Now, the groups are making quizzes to test the knowledge of what people know from the presentations, particularly the one on the human hand. A few members of the hand group also doing research on orthopedic surgeons to ask them questions related to prosthetics. The...

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Update 10/15/2015

The hand group is hard at work getting a quality control hand made.Things are heating up as we finish up initial research and get ready to really get our projects started.In the key group, Paul and Lucas are hard at work creating the presentation on issues with the hand project and areas of the field that have already been worked on. Nick and Jake continue research on lock and key technology. Eli has largely finished his presentation and focused...

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Update 10/13/15

Paul and his key group.The hand group is busy fixing their 3D printer.One of our beautiful 3D printers.Uh oh.This is what troubleshooting looks like.Getting to work.Our chief financial officer.Today in EDD, we continued work on our presentations and got most of them done.The key group, Paul in particular, is planning to decimate the hand group when we present on issues with their project (and vice versa). That, however, is a story for next post....

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Update 10/8/15

This is what engineering looks like.As you can probably tell from the above photos, today was an especially productive day. Ross created a Twitter account for the class, @sshsedd2016 (same for Instagram), and both groups made progress in their research.Here in the lock and key group, Paul and Lucas are researching competitors to the Enable hand, such as partially 3D-printed robotic prosthetics (or bionics, if you will). At last check,...

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Update 10/6/2015

Here in the EDD class, we are hard at work on our new projects.Today's Hand Report comes from Adam. After a weekend meeting with Joey from Enable, the hand group has begun printing test hands and will be sending one of them to Enable for quality control. Ross is working on making our class an official chapter of Enable. Gray has been designated as the "3D printer master" and Adam is working on general research. The rest of the hand group is working on either a presentation on hand anatomy, or patent checking for the key group.The lock and key group...

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Groups Form, Research Begins

Our EDD class has split into two groups. One group is working on the prosthetic hand project and the other is working on the contact chip key project. Both groups are just beginning research and the hand group has begun 3D-printing an existing model hand.Here in the PR department, we have enlisted Adam Bollinger as the writer for the prosthetics group and Gray Morrison as photographic assista...

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