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Micro tip (pipette tip) redesign as experiment in Frugal Science class on #reducelabwaste team. From sketches, to CAD design, to low-res wax dip test, to 3D print. Imagining creating pipette tips from wax or bioplastic dipping molds to enable reuse through melting, or more sustainable disposal. Or as process for tool caps. Just an exploration in reimagining lab tools.
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Speculative PPE prototype design I created (out of craft materials and biomaterials) as an example for the BioJam Camp 2020.
Looking to the future to the starting of in-person classes again, safety precautions in school — like PPE — will change how students and teachers interact and communicate. This design imagines a partially clear face mask with a microphone and speaker (with a volume dial) to enable participation and good communication at school (and in other situations). Also, I used sustainable (bio)materials to create it and as part of the speculative design. It imagines a speculative mycelium filtration (represented by pieces of mycelium growth on the front). In my actual prototype, the clear inner section of the mask is agar agar biomaterial (not plastic!) and the dial is chitin bioplastic |
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As an exploration with the microbit BBC, I designed a mask that uses the LED display to signify the user's breath temperature. In the resting stage of wearing it displays a solid heart, but if the breath gets to high then the heart starts flashing. By pushing one of the buttons, the temperature (C) of your breath is displayed. This could help others around you be aware if your temperature is high and for you to see what temperature your breath is at. This could signify if you might have covid and if you are more of a danger of spreading the disease.
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My team, the GIY Bio Buddies, consisting of Trisha Sathish, Anne Hu, and I, entered the 2019 Bio Design Challenge and won Outstanding Field Research and Runner Up to the grand prize (our instructor also won Outstanding Instructor). The challenge focused on imagining a future bio designed product and was open to both universities and high schools. We were one of three high school teams that entered the challenge which had opened to high schoolers for the first time. Our idea was the GIY Bio Buddies toy kit, a playful kit designed to engage teens and kids in bio engineering and sustainability design at a young age in order to include a wide range of people in bio design conversations. Our kit had two parts, the kombucha leather growing part and a mycelium growing part. Our kit included the necessary supplies to grow, create, play, and explore with these two bio materials. |
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In the journey of exploring biomaterials, I grew an incubator out of mycelium to grow mycelium. I used a cricket and a circuit playground express. The temperature dial was created by Anne out of playdoh and controls the temperature of the heating pad on the inside. The lights display the level of heat it is at. By mixing technology with biomaterials, we can make circuitry and tech more approachable and fun.
Play-Doh dial made by Anne Hu, laser etched cover designed by Trisha Sathish. |
At the beginning of 2019, I had a mini internship at SE3D a bioprinting and education start up, exploring millifluidics. I designed a few original chips then printed, tested, and iterated them. I had no previous experience in millifluidics, but I was able to bring in my learnings from Tinkercad (CAD software) to this whole new medium and way of engineering fluidic systems. (system used by SE3D) I created CAD designs in Tinkercad and brought them over to the SE3D software to print it in gel. To create the chip, I poured the chip gel material over the tracks I had printed. Once the chip was solidified, I dissolved the 3D printed tracks in water and covered the back in tape. To test it, I punched through the start port and sent dye through it--both to check that the grooves were clear and to see gradient flow of the dye. This is an approachable design system for open source fluidics tool development. Lastly, I engineered a hole punch assist tool for easier port creation in testing. |
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TCSM Clip2017 Teen Finalist
The Tape, Cable, and Stowage Management Clip (TCSM Clip) serves three functions and snaps onto the standard ISS handrail. It neatly stores a roll of duct tape on the “legs” of the clip. The “arms” of the clip hold wires/cables. While the TCSM Clip holds duct tape, the inside of the duct tape roll serves as a storage container, using the space that is ordinarily unused. The crossbar attachments’ clip hold in place plastic bags holding small items, such as the Loose Article Bag on the ISS. If the duct tape interior is not storing anything, the crossbar attachments can be used to store ordinary clear tape or to clip down items. This design prints with no supports. It explores incorporating preexisting structures of consumable products, such as duct tape, into 3D printed design solutions.
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Pocket Microscope2017
The Pocket Microscope is a hand-held microscope useful on the journey to Mars and for life there. It has a 2 mm embedded resin ball that acts as a lens. This design would be printed on a multi-material SLA printer with slightly flexible resin and clear resin for the lens. My design would be used to study samples of body cells, bacteria and for checking microbial air and surface samples. When on Mars, this microscope could be used for examining possible microbial life, samples, and monitoring health. To use, you insert the slide into the holder on the bottom and use the tabs to move the lens platform in the x and y axis tracks. To focus, you push inward on the treaded tabs to move the lens closer to the slide. To move the lens farther away, push on the edges of the tabs, and hold it up to the light to see clearer. The Pocket Microscope provides easy access to a view of the microscopic world to analyze body health and maintain a healthy environment.
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Space Anchor2016 Junior Winner
The Space Anchor prevents astronauts from getting stuck floating and being unable to reach any wall (like in the room Node 1 on the ISS). The anchor (the pyramid shaped piece) is fastened to a wall. If you cannot reach a wall, take out the two post pieces and assemble them. Insert the end of post one into the end of post two. Twist post one so that it locks in place. Extend the post by pulling on the ends and twisting so that the inner posts are locked. Hold the post as an extension of your arm and push the triangle end into the center of the anchor and pyramid’s petals will close. Next, twist the post so that the triangle at the end twists through the holes in the anchor. The post locks into the pyramid and now allows you to pull yourself to the wall. The Space Anchor could even be used for spacewalks to move along the outside of the ISS. Anchoring devices will be useful for future large expandable Bigelow modules.
Link to Presentation of this design: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n0s0d5214ntvgna/IMG_5930.MOV?dl=0 |
Bioreactor Ornament2016 Junior Finalist
This Bioreactor Ornament is designed for an expedition to Kepler-186f, an Earth-like planet taking many generations to reach. My design is part of a spirulina harvester system and is printed with translucent filament. The leaf spoon is used to eat with. The bottom chamber grows spirulina algae and has tubes for the input and output of C02, water, and oxygen. The middle piece snaps the system closed so it can circulate. When the divider is removed, the bowl above is nested and pressed into the chamber. The decorative holes allow the algae to be filtered into the bowl. The the algae “tea” stays in the bowl due to surface tension and could be ceremonially passed from hand to hand, connecting the generations who never experienced Earth, to tea ceremonies, ancient algae harvesting, and each other. Spirulina has many health benefits, such as vitamins and improves muscle strength. The designs on the bowl are inspired by Japanese nature patterns that bring cultural comfort into space.
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Flower Tea Cage2015 Junior Winner
Sometimes it gets boring in space. Astronauts need something to liven up their meals. After looking at the categories for a space container I decided to make a container for liquids. In space liquids form spheres and stick to things they touch because surface tension is different in zero gravity. While doing research I saw a video from space of some string holding a sphere of water in place. I realized a cage could definitely do it, too. I was reading about juices and tea. That got my mind working. Tea is flavored by leaves and astronauts study plants in space. Astronauts could plant tea leaves in space and occasionally they could pick a couple leaves and make tea! You put the tea leaves in the lower compartment of this design. The lid closes on hinges so the leaves don’t float away. You use Velcro to keep the lid closed. Then you squirt hot water into the cage. The water sphere would just stay in the cage. The leaves flavor the water through the holes and then you drink the tea!
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Mini Trash Container2014
This device would be used for storing used hand wipes on the International Space Station. You poke the used wipes through the circle hole into the inner compartment, then to close it so no wipes come out, you turn the inner compartment by spinning it with your finger through the holes in the outside compartment.
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Designed in AYA Art & Design Thinking Camp in the Design Your World week. For the prompt of "design your dream bedroom" with accessible and natural materials and incorporating circuitry. I used dried mustard stems and silkworm cocoons. The cocoons act as hanging lights using an LED light, conductive thread, copper tape, and a coin cell battery.
My vision was for an open, but cozy and functional multi-compartmented space. It uses both horizontal and vertical space to create a versatile design conducive to reading, working, and relaxing. |
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2018 entry in the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation Drop and Dash Challenge. We were an 8th grade team of three called Wings of Innovation representing Kennedy Middle School and Pinewood School. Our team consisted of Trisha Sathish, Lauren Lee, and me. We won Outstanding Device Performance in our grade category. The challenge was to create a device that fell from a ten foot tower and then delivered a penny to a green zone at the end of a six inch incline ramp of 10 ft in length. We were also a finalist with our process video.
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The Garden Moisture Lanterns allows a user to select a certain plant and test the soil to see if the plant has too much, too little, or the right amount of water. The red, green, and blue lanterns light up depending on the water level in the soil.
This project was created in a program for girls called MAGIC. I was mentored by an engineer on my self chosen journey. I wanted to design a product to help gardeners use the perfect amount of water to keep their plants thriving. I learned Scratch which lead into Arduino coding and finally experimented with C coding. I designed a 3D print lanterns and casing for the arduino. I used Tinkercad and Illustrator. |
Water controls our lives; it flows in and around us. The San Francisco Bay area has just escaped the drought to be deluged into weeks of rain. We have gone from days of blazing hot sun rays to days of relentless pitter-pattering rain and overflowing dams. My decorative hair comb (which I imagine to be made of white SLS) reflects the subtle beauty and power of water.
Humans are disrupting the natural cycle of Earth, using too much water and destroying nature. We should conserve water and treasure each drop, however, we are distracted by our own personal wants. An average American uses about fifteen gallons of water when they shower, changing this habit would help reduce water waste. Showering everyday, fifteen gallons everyday, isn’t very healthy for your hair. It deprives your hair of natural oils and can make it dry. This piece asks people to slow down and think about what really matters. The water dripping off a palm leaf is frozen in time and compels us to freeze for a moment too and think about if, in the big picture, does your shower matter more than your world? |
“Drip, Drip, Drip”, the sound of rain. This is the sound that we, the inhabitants of California, creatures and humans alike, do not hear often enough. The hair ornament part of my design addresses the issue of the huge energy and water waste of washing your hair every day.
The form of my design is a traditional decorative Japanese hair comb, called kanzashi. Showering wastes large amounts of water and energy and shampooing every day is actually bad for your hair because it washes away natural oils that are healthy. Ancient Japanese wore beautiful kanzashi in intricately styled hair, that they did not wash often. The nature themed part of my art piece focuses on how the drought affects hummingbirds, as well as other birds and animals. Hummingbirds are deprived from nectar because of the drought since people have planted flowering non-native plants that don’t survive droughts. I depicted Anna’s hummingbird and the flowering currant, which Anna’s hummingbird takes nectar from and is drought resistant. This Hummingbird Kanzashi brings awareness to the drought and how we can help the Earth and the animal on it, including Anna’s hummingbird, by planting more drought resistant plants and being more aware of our water usage. |
This design is based off of a Japanese legend about a magical badger that rewarded a kind, old man by transforming into a teapot containing delicious tea. Children tried to steal the teapot, but it transformed back into badger. The old man found the badger trying to attack the children and tried to hit it, but the badger told him what the children were trying to do. The children were ashamed and the badger and the old man traveled preforming magic shows. The old man became rich and the badger was honored and placed on a shrine. This design shows the badger partially transformed.
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This piece reflects on Sadako, an eleven year old Japanese girl diagnosed with "atom bomb disease"/leukemia from an atomic bomb that had dropped near her house when she was two. Inspired by a Japanese legend she attempted to make a thousand paper cranes in hopes of being granted a wish. Sadako died at age twelve and may have only finished 644 cranes or have made more than a thousand. This piece is a symbol of hopes and peace in the world of war.
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