Group 3 - NanoHacking-UNILI
Contents
Documentation Project SkiPo
Lecture 09.05.2015
Encourage your group members to share their unique skills and determine what skill they may need to reach their goals.
Knowledge Hunt
Find out whatyour team already knows about challenges you're interested in solving together and what you'd like to learn.
Jam Session + Cull The Set
Create as many ideas as possivle with your group, exploring a range of different solutions and building on each other's ideas in a supportive manner.
Look across all the ideas your group has created and decide which ideas should be made real and for the right reason.
Lecture 16.05.2015
Ideas Remix
Our group discussed toegehter different methods of realising our project in real life. As well as different functions the project should contain.
Mock Up Protoyping
During our Mock Up Prototping Session we prepared three small models which are a simple visualisation of the human skin.
One was the normal skin like everybody has it. The second one is a normal skin with our nano layer which is at the moment in the "off" modus because there is no impact. The third model shows the nano layer in the "on" modus where it gets stiff to protect from an impact.
The finished Mock Up has to be presented in a very short form in front of all the other students to show them our general project idea.
To visualise we showed at the small skin models what our Nano Skin is able of. We showed how it absorbs the shocks with a hammer and that it is as well a protection against knifes.
After our short presentation of our Mock Up we got some input from the other students. What they think about the project, what questions do they have about it and what kind of problems do they see.
- When the skin reacts, where does it get stiff? Completely or only partially?
- What happens with the skin when the person has a operation? Does it also get stiff? - This could be a real problem!!
- Can the person still feel anything or is it also a protection for pain and everything else?
- Has the skin the ability to differentiate between fun and danger?
Project Management
Timeline
For the next two weeks we prepared a timetable and fixed the date where we meet up to diskuss the next steps.
To Do and Name
We made a list of the stuff what we have to do in the next steps and assign the tasks to the different people. At the same time we discussed the name of our project as well as the name for our group.
The name of our project and group is: SkiPo SkiPo is the short version for: Skin Protection
Story Line
We prepared toegether a story line of our presentation to structure all the data and stuff we want to show. Through the story line we also got a better picture what we have to prepare for the final.
Visualistaion
The last task of our day were some sketches and ideas how to show our nano skin and the way it works.
Research
Body
http://www.hyperraum.tv/2013/04/30/auxetik-querdenker-gefragt/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Newtonian_fluid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D3o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin
How one could control the behaviour of the nano-particles
http://www.technologyreview.com/article/517956/chemical-connector/
The structure of our nano-particles could also connect like in the video above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKvMp4KQ6oU
What other materials could be used
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorheological_fluid
http://science.howstuffworks.com/liquid-body-armor.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6md1wgyo3Ik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYIWfn2Jz2g
Skin Colour
http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_4.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhazAnN9cKs
Meeting 19.05.2015
Presentation
At our first meeting we discussed again the content of our presentation because we invested more time in researching about the topic and came up with more ideas what we should include. Therefore we made again a short list where we show the different slides with the topics and their content.
Model
Next discussion topic was the model and they way we exactly build it. We decided all the materials and the size and what the model should be able to do.
Model Making
During the week we collected all the materials for our model. (food coloring, plexiglass, sponge, hair gel, silicone)
For start we tested our "fake blood" out of hair gel, water and food coloring. The result speaks for itself ;)
The next step was to cut the sponge in to the right size and create some boxes out of plexiglass. At the same time we added the different layers for the samples and made our final layer which should imitate the human skin. We also filled one example with our "fake blood".
