Timeline

A large amount of time was spent on refining our initial idea and designing a testing mechanism. Originally, the benchtop test was complex and required special pieces to be manufactured. Given how it wasn't possible to use a lab on campus, the benchtop test had to be extremely simple and work in an "at home" environment. This led to a shift for using an Arduino and servo motor to induce stress on the piezoelectric sheet. Once the basic idea for how our benchtop test was going to function we set out on creating a code for the Arduino that would simulate the forces found inside the right ventricle. From here on we were able to order the necessary parts to begin collecting data on how a piezoelectric sheet would perform. Benchtop testing took up about 3 months of our time, with about 2 months spent on refining our idea. The analysis of our collected took about a week, just in time for BE Day 2021.