Thesis

Adaptable Puzzles is a hand-held device that creates a way for students from grades 6th-9th to expand their critical thinking through puzzle solving while staying relaxed.

Wesley

Wesley

Precedent

Lo-Fi

Bradley

Bradley

Crank

Magnetic Cube

Puzzle Box

Difficulties

Wesley

Wesley

Bradley

Drawer

Crank

Layered Puzzle Box

Bradley

Bradley

Bradley

Second Puzzle Concept

Wesley

Precedent

Lo-Fi

Wesley

Bradley

Third Puzzle Concept

Bradley

Wesley

Bradley

Wesley

Bradley

Challenges:

• Create clear project pitch
• Had trouble creating ideas in a physical form.

Learned/Creative Freedom:

• Push my thinking during brainstorming

Next Steps:

• Create physical product, get user testing

Challenges:

• Finishing the project
• Recourses
• Modelling mechanisms
• Creating & Conceptualizing Puzzles

Learned/Creative Freedom:

• Modeling
• Designing Puzzles

Next Steps:

• Hi-Fi Models
• Finish Crank & Drawer

Appendix

Instructor Feedback

Team Feedback

Feedback

Overveiw

The Open Pump Project aims to develop a completely open source "build it yourself" insulin pump. By providing open source hardware to treat type one diabetes, consumers gain the right to understand their artificial organs, along with the freedom to improve them.

Grew up in a family of makers (And Diabetics)

Taking apart tech to learn

Hit a Dead End

Wanted to build a VR Headset

Discover Relativity VR

Wait Whats Open Source?

Build My Own Headset

Open Source Becomes World View

VR Headset Feels Meaningless

Want To Use My Skills For Real Good

Reflect On Insulin Pumps  🎉  🎉  🎉 

What Is An Insulin Pump?

Why Open Source?

$$$

Current insulin pumps discourage users from customizing their experience

FDA approval slows life changing features from reaching consumers

Closed source insulin pumps discourage user understanding of their body

The cheapest of used insulin pumps are still $500

OpenAPS

Design of an open source ultra low cost insulin pump

This is a project hacking insulin pumps with a Raspberry Pi to enable fully automated insulin dosing.

This was a project to create an ultra low cost insulin pump using open source 3d printed parts.

Preexising Work

Contacting Users & Researchers

Mathew Payne

Mathew Payne is the creator of the "Design of an open source ultra low cost insulin pump"

Denise Shanté Brown

Denise Shanté is a holistic design strategist focusing on designing communal spaces and type one diabetic.

Jess Westbrook

Jess Westbrook is a type one diabetic as well as designer and tenured professor.

Contacting Users & Researchers

Interveiwing Users & Researchers

Denise Shanté Brown

• The interview was a mix of structured questions and conversation
• highlighted the importance of an open community
• Pointed out the need for a pump where you control your experience

Jess Westbrook

• Interview was mostly conversational
• Highlighted the need for open development
• Encouraged customizability
• Insulin pumps serve people with uteruses poorly

Researching Features of Preexisting Pumps

Following the advice of Mathew Payne, I researched the "core features" of preexisting pumps attracting users.

Disassembling a Tandem insulin reservoir

After seeing the hidden insulin reservoirs of the Tandem insulin pumps I decided to take apart and document one.

Pump Research

Key Takeaways

Prioritize user customizability in my design (hardware & software)

Allow for pumps to be "off the grid" not requiring phone connection

Keep my design process transparent

Be honest about risk

Form Sketching

Form Sketching

Form Prototyping

Final Form Prototype

Functional Prototyping

Final Functional Prototype

Finish Technical Prototype

Test UI And Control Experience on Users

Publish Design Files and User Feedback

• Touch base with contacts
• Get public feedback on the project
• Figure out final dosing system
• Rethink general form design
• Design friendly UI
• Wait so how am I going to test this???

Going Forward

• First time I focused so heavily on reaching out to people
• More of a conceptual foundation than usual
• Especially user focused design process

Reflection

Lollipop is a non-profit organization that aims to empower and educate young children from ages 7 to 18. Since its founding by Victoria Wright-Haggins, our goal has been to introduce children to the fascinating field of 3D printing, particularly those from underrepresented communities in STEM.

Mission Statement

Pictures

What we accomplished

• Designing a Writing Piece

The writing piece is a google document we have worked on to send out to people who are interested in our mission and history.

• Newsletter

The newsletter is an update we have sent out to all who are interested in Lollipop 3D Printing.

• Video Editing

We have been editing interview videos to send online.

• Website Updates

We been communicating with our website and design team to get our website up and running in the future.

One semi-edited video...

Reflections

WESLEY:

• I learned how to improve my public speaking skills.

• I feel I did not have more creative freedom, however I feel this was a good

because I gained more experience in followership.

• One challenge was integrating feedback.

• The next step is to expand programs outside Florida and Finalize the Website.

Victoria:

1. The next steps are ...

The End

Clothing History is a garment made using historical techniques with the intention of expressing to other people the way that humanity has developed fabric and clothing making techniques throughout history. The piece could be displayed in an exhibition where it would give the viewer a brief overview of various innovations in textiles technology.

Knitting

Nålbinding

Crochet

Early practice

Fourth Attempt

So awesome! I used a real needle!

Remembered to twist yarn

Good tension

1 and 2

3

4

Casper's journey learning to Nålebind

Crochet

Machine sewn panels

Knitting

Embroidered planel

Nålebinding

Weaving

Hand spinning

Crochet

Machine sewn panels

Knitting

Embroidered planel

Nålebinding

Weaving

Hand spinning

Crochet sleeve

Crochet sleeve

Nålbinded cuff

Crochet sleeve

Nålbinded cuff

Felted piece

Crochet sleeve

Nålbinded cuff

Felted piece

Machine sewn shirt

Crochet sleeve

Nålbinded cuff

Felted piece

Machine sewn Embroidered shirt

Crochet sleeve

Nålbinded cuff

Felted piece

Embroidered shirt

Crochet sleeve

Nålbinded cuff

Felted piece

Embroidered shirt

Crochet collar

Crochet sleeve

Nålbinded cuff

Felted piece

Embroidered shirt

Crochet collar

Crochet sleeve

Nålbinded cuff

Felted piece

Embroidered shirt

Crochet collar

Woven sleeve

Crochet sleeve

Nålbinded cuff

Felted piece

Embroidered shirt

Crochet collar

Woven sleeve

Knit cape

Our project is a wearable dress made from thrifted, recycled, and found materials, inspired by the ecosystems of the ocean to highlight its beauty. Through this creation, we aim to shine light on the pressing issue of environmental waste (particularly fast fashion and plastic pollution) threatening our oceans ecosystems. By merging sustainability with fashion, we seek to raise awareness and inspire tangible action toward ocean conservation.

• 92 MILLION TONS of textile waste is produced each year
• Average US consumer throws away 81.5 Ib of clothing every year
• The fashion industry is responsible for 20% global water waste

• 33 BILLION Ib of plastic enters the ocean every year
• An estimated 75 to 199 MILLION tons of plastic waste currently in the ocean

Next steps:

• Prototype and incorporate motors in both the tentacles and the skirt
• Add more tentacles
• Make more/better accesories
• Have a person model the dress
• Share the dress/story with a larger audience ex: social media, fashion show, news

Precedents

TI 84 Calculator

 A calculator that can calculate pi built entirely on a breadboard

Sketches

Diagrams

OR Gate

XOR Gate

sample footage

What do we want the virtual logic sim to do?

How many bits will the calc need to be?

Thesis Statement

Binary calculator is a calculator made out of the lowest level components feasible so that we could learn more about how computers work at the simplest levels, and secondarily to teach people who are interested in computers more about them in a hands on way.

TI 84 Calculator

A calculator built entirely on a breadboard

Visual Precedent

Technical Precedent

Precedents

Sketches

XOR Gate

Diagrams

OR Gate

Full Adder

AND Gate

sample footage

Rough Drafts

AND Gate Prototype

OR Gate Prototype

Multiplier (Made Digitally)

Challenges

• We had a couple issues with the adder circuit, with making sure all the components were working and figuring out which didn't
• we ordered chips to use for logic gates we ordered the wrong type.

Next Steps

• Build

Thank You!

TI 84 Calculator

A calculator that can calculate pi built entirely on a breadboard

Precedents

Visual Precedent

Technical Precedent

Sketches

XOR Gate

Diagrams

OR Gate

Full Adder

sample footage

Rough Drafts

AND Gate Prototype

OR Gate Prototype

Goals

• Make a multiplier.
• Make the multiplier take more inputs/outputs
• Maybe, make a case

Should we make a physical or virtual version of this?

If we were to make a physical one, how should we use surface mount logic gates?

Questions for Audience

Next Steps

Next, we're going to work on building larger pieces digitally, specifically trying to make a multiplier, and making another full adder on perfboard.

Thank You!

Project Statement

A 9-button macro pad designed for customizable actions, capable of performing any task that can be executed via keystrokes, terminal commands, or application shortcuts. This device is powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico W and programmed using CircuitPython through the Thonny IDE. Its primary purpose is to streamline repetitive or complex tasks, such as remembering multi-button keyboard shortcuts, by automating them into single, easy-to-use buttons.

Precedents

Sketches

Final Sketch

What Changed

Throughout my prototype I was focusing on how to keep a nice and small design while also allowing the wiring to be simple. At first I was trying to make small holes to route the wires through but as i moved on i moved towards an open center. Along with small pegs to hold up the protoboard

Tech Diagram

Protoboard 7cmx5cm

Pi Pico W

Pegs to hold board

Hole for Pi wire

Case (PLA)

Final

Reflections

• Got a website to help customize the code
• A nice looking case that secures the buttons
• Wiring fully complete and connected to the Pi Pico W