During last Thursday’s BE100 recitation DuckHunt design crew (Annie Conde, Anand Sundaram, and Daniel Chabolla) met to finalize the specification of the Patient-Controlled Oral Analgesia Device. Before moving any further with our design it was necessary to create specifications for the three feasible models that had been thought of during our first meeting session. Each member in our group was assigned one of the three models and became responsible for creating specifications for one particular device. After going over the specifications of the three devices and analyzing the pros and cons of each model, we decided that rather than settle for one of the three concepts, it would be wiser to bring together the best features of every device and craft a more efficient, functional, and stylish device.
Final specifications such as weight and size of the model haven't been determined just yet. At the moment, the DuckHunt crew is devising how to stack up and deliver the dosage in the most efficient manner. As foretold by Anand, it is very likely that the medication delivery system will function very similar to the way a stapler operates. The idea is that a spring will be compressing prepackaged doses of medication. The packages will be stacked vertically. At the opposite end of the compressing spring will be a motorized spring that will be extricating the prepackaged doses from their stacked up arrangement. We have yet to determine how we will refill the device; something that is likely to be determined during our next session. You can bet, though, that our device will have cell-phone slider technology and will be displaying an LCD screen.
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