Since I was little, I have always striven to take the leadership positions that are offered. It started with being the line leader, and now I am the business manager for an entire company that determines our DAP grade. I have always felt the pressure that comes with leadership, from that first step out of... Continue Reading →
In need of some warm weather!! – Alexys Garza
Lately in the Austin area we have been experiencing some pretty "harsh" weather, and I don't know about any of y'all, but I don't like it! While the very cold and rainy weather is terrible just because this is Austin, it's also terrible for my project! The cold weather we have been experiencing makes it... Continue Reading →
The Adventures of AutoCAD (and other things)-HA
For the past month and half the newly created Plugged In group have been working on their portable phone charging station designed for students to use during school. I, Trinh, and my fellow peer, Toni are no longer a part of Guppies Group Inc. We have decided to break away from that project because we... Continue Reading →
Working up a Master Plan- Savannah Pena
The semester presentation plan wasn't finished as fast as we hoped it would be, so in order to make up for it we had to make some minor adjustments to our presentation. Putting our design on AutoCad was definitely challenging and took way longer to make a part than we anticipated. As a executive decision... Continue Reading →
Design Fun With Power Tools (Isha Patel)
This past week, JetSet has been finalizing the design of our prototype and attempting to build our final product. In the past month, we had ordered some materials from Amazon (wooden balls) and we finally received them this Wednesday! It was exciting because we finally had some materials to work with and start building our... Continue Reading →
Remembering Sketchup and Inventor Skills- Jessica H.
We are now re-entering the lovely world of 3D modeling. YAY! I am most defiantly struggling to remember how to use Autocad and SketchUp. It has taken my some time to remember how to dimension the components. I gave myself some time to just play around with the programming, and figure out what I'm doing.... Continue Reading →
Designing! Savannah Pena
This time around we are focusing on creating a prototype. We came up with some strategies we could take in order to accomplish this task. In our group we have a variety of thinker which is a good thing in this case because if one of us forget a detail another member remembers. The project... Continue Reading →
The Final Design Can Always Be Improved by Sabrina Lomeli
Now that we have submitted and have had our design proposal approved along with our final design for our final breast pump. (Original Image From Sabrina Lomeli) The picture above illustrates how our final design will look under the clothes. This design has the milk transported from the breastshields into a fanny pack which will... Continue Reading →
The Designing Begins- Eliza Martin & SEAS Design Team
SEAS Design Team has officially entered everyone's favorite design stage, the making of our product! In my last blog post, which you can find here, I discussed our first day in this making stage. Last class, the SEAS Team scheduled and divided the tasks required for us to complete. Today, we began to work on... Continue Reading →
Let the Prototyping Begin!—Eliza Martin & SEAS Design Group
The SEAS Design Group has been extremely busy the past few weeks finishing up our SEAS Design Proposal. Our Design Proposal took a lot of time, thought, and commitment in order to truly create a proposal we were proud of. The design proposal was difficult to write because we had to take a step back... Continue Reading →