Week 7 Post

This week we made the decision to use an existing solution for the wringer component of our design. This will allow us to focus all of our efforts on the conductive heater. We finished our ProENGINEER design for the conductive heater. Now we want to make a prototype to prove the concept of the design. We are still working on some of the details of the design such as the materials we will use and a few of the dimensions. We also met with Professor Hearn to present our ideas to her. She was really happy with what we came up with and also provided us with some valuable feedback that should help us improve our design. She suggested we use metal for the frame of the clothing compartment since using wood would warp and rot in the humidity. This week we will start constructing a prototype of the conductive heater and run tests with it.

Pro Engineer Design of Conductive Heater

Hand Drawn Design for Conductive Heater and Clothing Compartment