Problem Redefinition

Gantt Chart

Project Objectives

High Priority Objectives

• • Adjustable footrest

  • Adjustable armrest

  • Adjustable back support

  • Small and portable

  • Quick, simple, easy, efficient

  • Safe for children

  • Easily sanitized

NEW High Priority Objectives

• • "Blueprints" of the chair

    • sponsors want to be able to build the chair even if we can't

Second Priority Objectives

• • Easily reproducible

  • Aesthetically pleasing

Low Priority Objective

• • Having money left over in the budget

WOW Design Solution

• • Built in game/tablet to distract the children while they are getting measured

  • Automatic adjustment

    • Given one particular dimension, chair automatically adjusts all components to fit that size child

Risk Reduction Strategy

• • 3D printed two different potential chair designs 

• • Compared standard chair heights to see if they could potentially be modified to fit our size constraints

  • Finite element analysis on proposed chair designs

Intermediate Milestones

• • Completing the CAD and drawings of various components

    • Armrest

    • Footrest

    • Backrest 

    • etc.

• Order essential mechanisms

• Send out for components to be fabricated

  • Assembled by either the sponsors or our team