Saturday, January 29, 2011

1/20/2011

What a week!
We began serious work on our display this week. In the top photo Luke and Emmet worked together to develop a story about how someone might break an arm and need a cast. Luke is writing the text, where he describes a skiing accident from a cliff jump.



In this video, Luke describes the story and shares a picture he made of the story.




In this photo, Zoe is working on some pictures of the problems with casts right now. The group research indicated that casts can be stinky and itchy. Zoe's pictures illustrate this clearly. At the same time, Miro was drafting a note on what makes casts cool so that we can be sure that our design retains these features. Our research indicated that casts should be easily written upon and should come in bright and varied colors.

 Nari dropped by for a quick visit to learn more about the Lego Bolts and our work to develop a better cast.



This video illustrates Luke fitting and comparing the lego cast to Emmet's arm to make any necessary adjustments.






This image illustrates our initial cast prototype. This cast allows for air to move through the cast while limited the motion of the broken wrist/arm. It holds a thumb firmly in place and it uses four different colors and can be easily removed for cleaning.


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