Category Archives: Miranda’s Blog

EL wire panel

These past two weeks I have been working on creating the EL wire panel for the leg enclosure.

Above is the first panel I tried. On the right, I cut holes into the neoprene so that I could insert the …

The Beginnings of a Prototype

We have started a prototype with neoprene and some spandex materials. Our graduate student advisor suggested that we create the different parts of the prototype separately so that we can figure out what individual parts have issues that need to …

Changes

In the past two weeks, after we learned that we were going to change to making a leg device, we changed our design. We thought that we would have straps with clasps on the sides of the leg so that …

From Elbow to Knee

We were able to get feedback on our design from a physical therapist that practices in our university health center. She told us that motivation is not really a factor since most patients want to get better as soon as …

Researching Arduino Boards

For our Visualizing Physical Therapy Project with CREU we will be using Arduino to program the visualization of electroluminescent wire (EL wire). This week I researched which Arduino hardware board would be most conducive to our project and prototypes. For …