We had our last meeting for this quarter on Thursday. Following are a few progress and conclusion we have made. For the two flip prototypes, they are able to achieve more practical size. However, there are still lots of problems such as the rotating point position. One of them include the slide to avoid the contact with the ground which …

Revised our fall poster at the workshop on Monday and submitted it on Tuesday. Right after the submission, we have a meeting with the sponsor. Following are a few points that he wants us to be aware of while we continue working on our designs: The device needs to be about an inch above the bottom of the shoe when …

One week from last meeting, we all have some improvements on our design or prototype. Something special for this week’s meeting is that we finally meet in person. It has been a while for us to meet online. Among the 5 members, each of us have worked on our own design. However, there are two very similar design, so we …

Following the progress from last week, each of our member worked on different designs for our ice traction device. Some actually made the prototypes and some were still working on the design in Solidworks model. Above are one of the prototypes- slide lock and one of the Solidworks designs. Our prototypes include the butterfly, flipper and slide lock. The solidworks …

This week, each member is responsible to provide detailed design sketch to choose from for the direction of further development and to create prototype next week accordingly. Above are two of the finalized designs. On Tuesday, we met for the first time of the week with advisor. The result of the discussion was that most of us need to provide …