Ela Savas

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Closing Reflection Q&A !!

What is your favorite thing that you learned? My favorite thing I learned throughout this whole process was probably that all ideas can be laid out physically if you are really passionate about it. We never thought we would be holding an actual 3D prototype of our design. Adding on to our 3D designed prototype, …

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Testing on bike!

After quite a quite a bit of time testing and finalizing our final prototype, we got the chance to test it out on an actual bike in the gym! While placing our prototype on the bike and putting it in motion we felt accomplished because we never thought we would have been here at the …

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In the lab

More pictures :)

3D Parts of Prototype

We finally had the opportunity to see our 3D print and take a picture! Everything worked out well, but since the measurements were not completely accurate, we had to shave off some of the 3D print to make the parts fit together when we tried combining the 3 parts to form our final prototype.

Lately:

As we are learning more within our design process, we have started finalizing our idea of our final prototype. After deciding we wanted to work with the Camshaft idea, we narrowed down and decided we wanted to make an upside down CamShaft that connects to the socket of a prosthesis. Camshafts can be hard to …

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Workings of Camshaft Brainstorming

Halfway Reflection

What have you been learning so far? Give a brief summary.  Personally, I have learned that through our process, even the smallest pieces of insight can go a long way. After finishing up our brainstorming process and a good amount of interviews, new questions have risen that will most likely impact our design a lot. …

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Redirection

A lot has happened regarding who we have met and the types of advice both neta and I have received about our study. We conducted interviews and met with people such as Mr. Adair, Dr. Katherine Saul, and of course our advisor, Ms. Starling. During the envision process of what we might want to come …

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LDC’s & Bikes/Cycling

After a good amount of research, we found that cycling is the most effective form of exercise in terms of getting heart rate up. While researching the limitations cyclists with amputations have, we came to the realization that not everyone uses bikes for exercise. In our AP Human Geography class, we learned that bikes are …

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