convenience device

Details:

✦ 7 weeks
✦ Arduino, C++, laser-cutting, Fusion 360
✦ Team: Jennie Wei, Cody Ho

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Background:

This project was an opportunity to work with a member of the local Pittsburgh community living with disability through CLASS 🡥 . My team's client was Richard Powers, whom we worked with throughout the duration of the project. The brief was to create something that is useful and relevant for your client in particular, driven by their wants or needs and nobody else’s.

Over the course of seven weeks, we conducted a need-finding interview with our client; distilled and generated meaningful ideas from that discussion; made a thoughtfully designed working prototype to explore potential solutions to an identified problem; received feedback from the client and others on our prototype; and used our findings to create a final iteration to be given to the client to keep at the conclusion of the project.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Detail Shots:

After prototyping, my team arrived at a final design. The physical form was initially 3D modeled in Fusion 360, then laser-cut out of 3mm green acrylic.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Demo Videos:

The first video shows how the alarm time can be set. Once the alarm goes off, the box is then opened to grab a glasses wipe which begins a one minute timer to ensure enough time is spent on cleaning the pair of glasses.

The second video demonstrates how the alarm time can be changed by a press of the front two buttons, and how the wipe count can be reset by the press of a button located on the side of the box. In addition, the timer functionality is demonstrated when the box is opened to grab a glasses wipe from inside.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Research:

We met with our client Richard powers four times over the course of this project. We did two initial need-finding meetings, received feedback on
lo-fi prototypes at the next meeting, and finally presented our project to Richard when the final device was completed.

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