This week, our work has slowed slightly, but we are still on track! On Monday, Francesca did not attend class, since she was attending the AIMBE Public Policy Institute, which provided interesting insights regarding the ethics of bringing a device similar to ours to market. Abby and Bella participated in ethics day, and had great discussion about potential pitfalls of our product, especially how errors, whether through misprinting or mechanical errors, harms the patient/client.
Our team was able to order the components necessary for us to build our final project, which is very exciting! Abby has continued to iterate upon our CAD design files, and is planning to begin 3D printing components this coming week. Upon printing some components, we will begin to have a physical, tactile representation of our work, and more easily make any needed tweaks once we have it in our hands. Francesca has continued to test Tesseract– she has had some difficulty with the data sets she chose last week, specifically with those that include cursive, but continues to make progress and will research more photo or document sets for our team to try. Bella was unfortunately sick on Wednesday but continued working on our designs from home.
We have not identified any new risks this week that were not previously identified. No changes to the design were made this week, but may occur next week as mentioned, depending largely on the results of our 3D prints. No updates to the schedule were identified.