Far from Short Handed

This week is off to a strong start with everyone busy at work. The hand team is printing and designing constantly, with the Wall-E hand design printed and heading to be tested. Steve's group is re scaling the ball and socket design to be printed. New designs are flying out, with a peg design, and a switch design in the making.

Paul's group is working on coding the log in page.

EYE is preparing for their meeting with the volunteers at Schuylerville for their upcoming program.

3D printers are still getting fixed and while Cam works on a build plate for a print out of an arm, Chudy researching finishing 3D printed parts.

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Trip to GE Global Research Center

On February 26th, EDD traveled to GE Global Research headquarters in Niskayuna, New York with the goal to get feedback on the midyear presentation. About forty engineers working on site were presented to and were all impressed with the development of the projects so far.

After the presentation, the presenters got feedback from the engineers. The day has been described as "inspiring and educational". 

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The Past Week

This past week we have been busy at work running through and criticizing our classmate's presentations. Today we were able to do a rough run through of the whole presentation. The printers are up and running relatively smoothly, so hopefully we will be testing prototypes soon!

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Press and Print

Paul's group is working on their presentation to GE. EYE is organizing and purchasing materials for their Saturday program. The hand group is working hard to get the printers up and running, while our new printer seems to be getting set up fine. The hand group is also working on their presentation for GE and working on new designs.

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Continued Work

Paul's Group Holds Discussion

Today the group progresses with their designing. Hand group begins to design arms, and Paul's group continues the design of the website. Paul's group also schedules meetings with an expert in educational software. They also discuss offline wifi signals. EYE is setting up registration for Schuylerville Saturday Program in mid-March.

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Return From a Busy Week

Max and Max playing the piano

After the fun EYE program this weekend, and midterms all last week, we are off to a quick start here on the things that need to get done before winter break.

Lior shows off his storm chaser

Paul's group is working on coding their website and making sure that their design will work aesthetically and functionally. This is a sample of what they would like their project to look like.

EYE is organizing funding and making sure that all of the data from the past weekend gets documented.

The Hand group is working on getting the printers working and getting a successful print. After Max and Andrew attended the Helping Hands Winter Outing in Boston, the group is working on some ideas and requests that they gathered there. Below you can see PJ testing out our hand.

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