Unfortunately, I was too sick to come to class this week. However, my group and I got together today at BIF and The Fab Lab to coordinate and work on our project. We first met in BIF to decide if we do in fact want to switch our final project idea and if it would be feasible. After a lot of thought and research, we decided our solar powered coffee cup warmer wasn’t feasible. Although our switching costs from one project to another may be large, we eventually came to the conclusion that it would be in our group’s best interest to do so.

So, we put our heads together and eventually came up with the fact that air pods (the new iPhone headphones) easily fall out of ears of users. We then decided to create a customizable ear piece that would attach to the headphone and also the ear, allowing the headphone to stay in the ear and not slip out!

First, we researched the best way to fit it into the ear, how to attach it to the headphone and also how to make it customizable. We believe this could be a super easy process for students. They could come into the Maker Lab, get the height and width of their ear and print their customized attachment. This is a simple problem and an even more simple solution that could help a lot of people with this inconvenience.

We had a little trouble coming up with the initial design and had to explore things on Fusion that we had never used before. However, we can up with a basic model that we will be printing tomorrow and testing out on volunteers for specific fits and sizes.

I am happy my group could get together and figure out the new course of our final project! I believe it will be a successful one and I can’t wait to see our prototype tomorrow.