Honour Thesis: Industrial Design: Parametric Prosthesis

[Rowan Page]

Hi all,

I am an Industrial designer from Melbourne, Australia. I am currently
undertaking an honours thesis in Industrial design and thought my
project might be of interest to people here. I am still a bit lost
trying to come to terms with everything and am only really a fifth of
the way into the project.

My project is essentially to design an open source parametric
prosthesis for below the knee amputees. I wish to leverage digital
fabrication and design processes to address the highly laborious/
skilled labor prosthesis production process. Using technologies like
the Makerbot 3D printer to create prosthesis. While in addition
explore generative design principles to allow the user to involve
themselves in the design process.

I thought I would just dump the raw materials on you guys if anyone is
interested in a flick through. So far I have collected a bunch of
research and then generated a few design illustrations in response to
this. They are pretty over done and just display some ideas. I would
love some feedback on where I am now.

Moving on from here I am looking to collaborate with a prosthesis user
and prove out the process with them, moving towards a final model. I
have just received my Makerbot Replicator and started printing, here
is a print of a 3d scan of my leg with 123D catch:

[img]http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w362/Rowan_Page/photo.jpg[/
img]

I am also working on a blog that should be up in a week or so that
details this all a bit clearer. And can be a bit of a follow along
thing.

Presentations here:

Concept Presentation: [url]https://viewer.zoho.com/docs/pcGd2[/url]

Research Document: [url]http://freepdfhosting.com/0757da3bdd.pdf1[/
url]

Thanks! Hope you find it interesting.

[Rowan Page]

Hi, I just realised the html tags break the links in the email. Here
are the links again.

Concept Presentation: https://viewer.zoho.com/docs/pcGd2
Research Document:   http://freepdfhosting.com/0757da3bdd.pdf1
Photo: http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w362/Rowan_Page/photo.jpg