After printing our prototype, we knew there were several changes we needed to make to our design in order to print a functional part that Jake could use. The first thing we addressed was the …
Wheelchair compartment
Wheelchair attachment prototype
Our initial design for the wheelchair attachment would have taken over 40 hours to print at the density we wanted, so we printed a smaller version of the part. The reason we didn’t want …
Wheelchair attachment preprocessing
Cura was used to look at part and process optimization to prepare our part for the first prototype. Cura is an open source pre-processing software that gives approximations on build time based on the desired …
CAD Model
This week we made our preliminary designs for Jake’s wheelchair compartment. As you can see in the screenshots below, we went with a compartment with 4 separate slots that are each wide enough for a …
Project Ideas and Requirements
Background/Motivation The purpose of this project is to 3D print a storage compartment for Jake Anderson’s wheelchair. Jake Anderson is a fellow UW-Madison mechanical engineering student. Just over a year ago, Jake broke his neck …