Introduction
The eyeglasses' broadened vision will help people see more around them. When people go outside they need to see everything around them to ensure they are safe at all times. Cyclists and pedestrians with vision loss will need to have any bit of extra vision they can get. Currently, there are glasses that allow you to see peripheral vision but the glasses are big and don’t provide much information to people wearing them. This extension to glasses will allow pedestrians to be more aware. When people are walking on a trail for example bikes will have to announce to the walkers what way they are going to pass left or right and then the walker would have to move in the opposite direction. These glasses will allow bikers to see behind them when cyclists go on the road. It can be dangerous for them when cars pass and the glasses help them to see cars or other cyclists. These glasses will also eliminate the need to communicate. This will also help any people with hearing loss. This attachment will be set at the bottom of the glasses. These convex glasses will help you to see behind you.
Objectives
The goal is to make cyclists and pedestrians more aware and to reduce the risk of injury for these people. Also taking into consideration things mechanical can break or fall off or fail. If it breaks or falls off the cyclists can still use their senses to hear or see cars coming at them. It still needs to allow the user to see it in front of the user.
Design strategy
The first approach is to make the glasses allow you to see more of your peripheral vision but that was a challenge to figure out and hard to make in reality. The following design is to make mirrors for cyclists to see cars and other things coming up behind them. The attachment will be made of plastic and will hold the mirror in place.
Plan of Action
Create a small attachment that will hang off of the glasses
Put mirrors into the attachment that will stay in place
Test the glasses to see if it works
If they don’t then move the glasses closer or further apart to be able to see
If you can’t see then make the attachment bigger with mirrors
Tolerance Analysis
The glasses need to be able to allow the user to see behind them and in order for this to happen the attachment needs to be a certain length and width that we still allow the user to see in front of them. The most important part of the project is the attachment not breaking and working. The mirrors need to allow the user to see in front of them and behind them. The attachment should not put any strain on the user's head.
Cost and schedule
(15/hour) * Glasses 6 hours = 90 total
The glasses will need to be made and with that, the attachment made out of plastic would have to be 3D printed. Then the hours that would take all together would be around 6 hours and I think that a worker or workers could do this for 15 dollars an hour.
Glasses=3 hours
Attachment=5 hours
Putting the mirror into the attachment=30 mins
Attaching the 3D printed attachment onto the glasses= 30 mins
Bibliography
Trieye.com Carsten Fongen was the founder and came up with the idea in 2016.
Ilovebicycling.com “unknown” They answer and educate people on cycling
mikesport.eu “unknown” Handlebar mirror bikes
Thegadgetflow.com “unknown” Allows you to see behind you when cycling off of the glasses
Bikeradar.com Matthew Loveridge Glasses that allow you to see more around you