Phase 1 Update:

The team dove deep into literature to gauge viability behind initial motivations. The team's goal of making a skin health evaluation tool was deemed to have a competitive and potential market. The team held multiple brainstorming sessions to work towards a direction. Throughout the Phase the team goal was to build the unthinkable; an extremely lightweight skin evaluation device that was also capable of continuous deformation measurement. The two greatest components behind this was creating a proper probe and pump device, and the second being incorporating an optical sensor at the core of the probe to create the continuous deformation measurement.

Above are the only 2 true competitors in the realm of DermaTest's Project. The Nimble (pictured left) and the Cutometer (pictured right). First design ideas for Team DermaTest consisted mostly of a mixture of these two products. Trying to capitalize on the advantages of the lightweight nimble and the continuous effective measurements produced by the Cutometer, the team put together three first level concepts.

Shown above left to right were our larger handheld device (similar to Cutometer in size), our mid-sized double suction design (a mix of Nimble and Cutometer), and small scale lightweight design (most similar to Nimble in size)