Hello everyone, we are the Outer Ear Team. We worked with Charlie Gutierrez for the 2020-2021 school year on designing a vibrotactile haptic feedback stabilizing vest to aid stroke patients who cannot find their equilibrium while standing. This device is made so that potential individuals can use a different feedback system and relearn how to balance.
This senior project is a continuation of a master’s thesis by Toan Le. Our objective is to design a product that can isolate a scanning tunneling microscope from ambient vibrations so that it can take accurate atomic resolution images. The scope of our project is to expand upon previous design work already completed, and manufacture, test and validate Mr. Le’s designs as well as our own.
Four mechanical engineering students attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo began a year-long journey in Fall 2020 to create an interactive, hands-on experience for the users of Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School’s SciTechatorium. Nestled in the hills of Avila Beach, California, the Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School (BCFCS) is a place where children and adults work together to create a safe, supportive, inspiring and challenging school community. The SciTechatorium is an on-campus museum filled with exhibits geared towards Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) concepts. Its main purpose, to be a place where students can explore the world around them through STEAM. During this project, the team of engineers sought out to embody the BCFCS motto: “What we learn with pleasure, we never forget.” The team tailored their project to complement current curriculum and existing exhibits; ultimately, deciding to build an oscylinderscope, a spinning drum that creates a strobe effect behind a set of guitar strings. This effect reveals vibration patterns in the strings after they are plucked.
