After the last few months of toiling away at the project working on it step by step, there comes the exciting moments when the whole things comes together. Sometimes its as good as you can get it but other times it won't even fit. And then you realize that you designed the parts incorrectly. But in this case, it was an easy fix. All I had to do was to sand the inside. After that, I easily slid the trigger switch board into place. Excitingly, it fit and is in the place exactly as I intended it to be. This assembly marks the beginning of the project's true purpose coming to life. The project now will be soon held in the hands of the user and be able to type away freely. As February closes, I spark the beginning of the functionality of the creation. I hope to get this really working well soon.
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After having a good ol'chat with one of the professionals in the room, I was inspired by the advice that they gave us. My professional was our principal, Mr. Morales. He is a visionary. When talking to him, he channeled his will through me and to my project. His advice simple, vision. See the product in the audience's hands, let them experience what I've created, and most of all, see myself on the stage in front of hundreds of people. I thought this was great advice for not just this project but also my life as an engineer in the future. It was going to be a different kind of presentation. One that brings me to the audience, not the audience to me.
This is the up switch. The switch model is created so that it can utilize the angle of the finger in the up wards motion of the first finger segment. The butterfly model with the wings and a pillar give it elevation but also allow the canopies to take inputs from 2 fingers at a time. This allows for less pillars stemming from the dorsal half. The shaft provides a pathway for the wiring to get into the inside of the skeleton, making it nice and clean. The ideal way to assemble this into the model is through cutting part of the spacers between the index and middle fingers from on top and giving it a place to slide it into. Then again between the ring finger and the pinky. After finishing this, I will need to implement the pressure analog sensors to detect pressure inputs.
November 2018, It was about that time when I started to finalize the first few switch models of the NGR. The down switch was the first of the switches to be created and so I further refined the down switch until its near completion. The model was also updated with a new white finish and also I implemented holes on the ventral half of the skeleton model for the wires to thread through as well as shelves for the lips of the switches to slide into. Overall, the skeleton is nearing its completion and soon I will have the dorsal half completed as well.
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AuthorSamuel Liu, Archives
December 2019
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