At the beginning of the school year of 2018, we were tasked to create a new invention or make an existing invention greater. I decided to redesign an invention that I happen to use a lot. This invention is called a squeegee. A squeegee is a tool with a flat, smooth rubber blade, used to remove or control the flow of liquid on a flat surface. I use it to clean off the water droplets on my car window after it has rained or after it has been washed. Every time I did this, though, I would always get water on me. Now, that is not necessarily a bad thing. It is bad if it starts to make you smell like a wet dog. I have a particularly heavy sense of smell, so even the slightest wet spot on my shirt will make everything to me smell awful. I decided to try to fix this by redesigning the common squeegee. This is how I made the Quick-Clean squeegee.
There were three prototypes that came out of this project. The first two failed while the third was promising.
Failed to fit wiper and failed to extend.
Failed to fit wiper and failed to extend.
Successfully fit wiper and extended relatively well. Kept the user dry while wiping the car.Â
The half-size print took over 11 hours and costed $2.42 to print. It used 36.32m of filament.
The final product earned a grade of 90%. It took 2 hours to set up the poster.