Mechanical and machine design

Week's assignment

This weeks assignment was to design a machine (mechanism + actuation + automation) Build the mechanical parts and operate it manually. Document the group project

My personal contribution

You will find here and overall look to what we did for the mechanical and machine design. My contribution relays on the 3d design, and the arduino code, this last one was really hard, but at the end we could make it work.

Knee rehabilitation machine

We, as a group, had an approach to the needs the medical community has sometimes. One of our classmates is a traumatologist, so he explained to us that there exist some devices to help patients to recover and rehabilitate the articulations that has gone through a surgical procedure.

Knee flexing motion

After a knee surgery, it is important to follow some physical therapy to recover the proper movement and functionality of the articulation. In this case we focus on an exercise that consists on stretching and flexing the leg.

There are already machines that does this job, unfortunately, they are quite expensive, and not all medical centers, especially in a country like mine, have the possibility to acquire one of these.