Follow up

EYE had a successful Saturday program, 110 kids showed up, and about 40 volunteers helped out!

Hand group is designing new hands and setting up follow up meetings with the doctors they had previously been in contact with to get their prototypes looked out and compare them to the eNable hand.

Printers are communicating with Formlabs to figure out why our printer failed.

Paul's group is testing and debugging the log in page.

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Get Lost in Virtual Reality

With the poster printed, the Google Cardboard fundraiser is officially up and running.

Paul's group is researching drawing tools that they can implement and extend in their own program.

Hand group is continuing printing and designing. The Wall-E Hand is assembled and ready to test

EYE has a program on Saturday and they are finishing up preparation.

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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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