Interviewers: James Galbraith, Zach Fiske, and Alex Barlow Interviewee: John Grant, MD, PhD, FRCSC (Clinical Associate Professor and Orthopedic Surgeon, University of Michigan) We interviewed Dr. Grant a second time after completion of our alpha prototype phase, which saw the realization of stand-alone guide only drilling the ALLR tunnel (Oasis) Read more…
Alpha Prototypes Both Dune and Oasis were manufactured using only the Leopard Works 3D printers. This resulted in a budget of $0 for their manufacturing. Testing setup required the purchase seen below.All other materials were borrowed from the machine shop. Beta Prototype The majority of items purchased were allocated Read more…
*It is to note that all references from here on out regarding LET will be referred to as ALL. This change was made as LET does not reflect the work we have completed. ALL is a more broad term that encompasses our work Concept Generation Concept selection and refinement Prototype Read more…
Timeline for the semester is shown below. The first semester (September to December) focused on selecting the problem and formalizing all stakeholder functional requirements as well as beginning to plan for the second semester (January to May). During this time, the team was focused on the fabrication of the prototypes Read more…