One down...

So I realized today that I haven't officially posted a blog for over a month. Alexa has been stealing all the air time so I thought it was about time to update you on what's going on. This has been a crazy month and it's only about to get crazier! I finished my senior design project yesterday and presented with my group on it.

For our project we were to design a bike chariot for a partially disabled patient for the Harmony House rehab center in Waterloo. This bike was to be connected to a regular bike but the patient ("Bud") was to be allowed to pedal to help out the other rider. It was a long process full of some unnecessary paperwork along with some blood, sweat and tears getting the final product out of the lab. It was a great time working with my group and the best part of all is that I finally got dressed up in a suit to present to our customers as you can see below!


So the bike design has a single tube that runs back and the seat can slide back and forth in order to adjust to different height riders. It also has a pull-pin that allows you to rotate the seat in both directions to allow for easier removal of patients. We gave it an all-new drive system and a new seat from a recumbent bike manufacturer. The other group worked on the hitch and braking system, but that wasn't finished by our presentation today.


Hopefully the bike will be completely done by the end of the semester as long as the other group finishes up some of the work they have to complete so that Bud can ride a leg of RAGBRAI this summer. So if you happen to be checking out RAGBRAI this summer and you see someone riding on this sweet bike you'll know where it came from and all the work that went into making it safe and operable for our customer. So this is the end of class number one of my final semester here at ISU.

Here are a few pictures of our final design.