About the need knower(s)


Kinley Sonam Dorji

Kinley Sonam Dorji a 9-year-old studying in grade 3 in Changangkha Mss. He is a calm boy who loves to social with new people. He has cerebral palsy. 

Bishal Neopany

BishalNeopany in gade 9, he is 16 years old. From Damphu Middle Secondary School, Tsirang Mild Intellectual Disability, very slow in writing.  He is well behaved boy and has good level of comprehension. He is very friendly boy and likes to socialize. He has difficult to write. 

Sajan Rai

Sajan Rai is a class 8 student from Damphu MSS, he is 18 years old. His medical diagnosis is cerebral palsy. He likes to socialize with new people. His hands are stiff and has difficulty in writing smoothly. ü    ü  

Subject / Need(s)


Needs for Kinley

Kinley struggles to hold pen / pencil while writing or scribbling on paper.

For Bishal

Bishal requires devices that will help him to write legible, since he has poor motor coordination.  

Sajan Rai

He requires devices that will help him in his writing.  He needs devices to ease stress on his fingers and hand while writing.

Idea(s)


Idea-1

It's a simple concept to balance and give rest to our hand while writing.

Problem Statement

After doing some discussion with our teams we have come with the few advantage for both left hand and for right hand and we have cancelled the spring since the wheel bearing is doing good.

1st Prototyping

This is our first model that we have printed and we got few problems and it was out part of challenges and redesigned it for better smoothness and low friction because we were not able to move the hand support.

2nd Prototyping

So finally we have came up with some few ideas that to make it smoother and had to add some more length.And we decided to add a soft clothe on top of hand support.

Blueprint

Through this Blueprint we can print and we have gave the material that we have used.

Pen Gripper

With help of this pen gripper our prototype had worked really good and was a game changer.

Gcode

Result(s)

Our need knowers are happy with our prototype and the feedbacks are satisfying.And it seem that they need more time to adapt because it's new for everyone and have to learn to handle and give more practice.

Future Prospect(s)

Using right materials and giving more focus on the moment and balance can improve a lot because the prototype can give good effect on need knowers, they need to improve and do more practice to adapt.The design is simple and clear and easy to use by any ages.(We need to make long and a steadiness.