This is my first entry for the 2016-'17 year.
Independent Science Research
Prosthetics:
“You think therefore you can”
Abstract: This is the Bionic Prosthetic Hand Proj...
Today in class we welcomed a new member, Sameer. His project is on building a sustainable homes for Jamaicans in need of a more reliable, cheaper,...
On the 26th we had a visitor, Mr. Piercy, from the lower campus to observe our class setting and to hear a little about our projects. After we all sh...
Today we spent quite awhile brainstorming ideas for Sameer's Smiley Box Project. I suggested adding natural light in the roof and a mosquito net to p...
This Friday we had two new speakers: Jeff and Tito, come speak to us and share with us about their pursuits after being 2004 graduates of HPA. Both ha...
This week was the first week of ISR and a lot of information was passed around the room. Everybody in the class has a strong passion for their projec...
This week was very slow and unproductive due to the hurricanes canceling two days of school. On Monday, the majority of the class time was spent on b...
Today was our first class this week due to Labor Day canceling all classes on Monday. Lots of progress was made today on my end. We started off with ...
In class today I tried cleaning up the 3D Printer because there was a lot of dust gathering beneath the build plate. If the printer rounds up to much ...
Apart from a great deal of printing progress, and new Emotiv-Insight EEG Headset, I have done a lot of brainstorming and research. When I spoke to Jef...
In class today I made the final step to moving forward and I figured out a way to be extremely efficient when 3D Printing. As I was researching ways ...
Today was the first major checkpoint/objective that I achieved. Coming into class I had a completely printed the first prototype of the Bionic Hand. ...
This week I stepped right into it. I took a step forward in the direction of my goal. Major progress was made by having had printed all pieces that ma...
In class today I finally was able to put my hand together with some screws that I found. They did not fit perfectly but they will work for now. I hav...
Today was a huge day for me. I completely assembled the entire hand. With zip ties instead of nuts and bolts and fishing line as the tendons, I was a...
In class today, each of us individually presented our projects to some board members and Elliot Kastner, an HPA alumnus that is a graduate of Dartmou...
I finally got it all together. The hand is currently completely fixed and threaded with fishing line. I used zip ties to keep it all together instead ...
An ongoing challenge of mine as I continue to engineer my Prosthetic Bionic Hand is that I am trying to make it as real as possible. The obvious func...
In class today I worked on writing some more code. I am using Arduino because I have prior knowledge in programming robots with Arduino language. I h...
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