🥄 spuuuuuuuuuuuunnn 🥄

a set of utensils (spoons) designed by working together with an individual with a particular set of needs

created with James Nguyen in ME 179 - Augmenting Human Dexterity

our need knower had a disability that impacted her ability to eat independently and understand when food is/isn't ready to be consumed

so we spent some time designing a potential solution with her

in addition to interviewing our need knower, we first iterated and prototyped before creating our spoons

we worked with several different microcontrollers including the Arduino UNO, Nano, Adafruit Feather M0, Adafruit Feather Huzzah

after we got the electronics working with 1. temperature sensing, 2. accelerometers, 3. vibration, and 3. sound we made multiple copies of the spoon!

then we started designing the encasing with PLA and silicon

we needed to go through several 3D printed versions of the encasing

then we presented our project and invited the public to experience our spoons

our iterations and spoons were presented on plates in a dinner setting

the public was able to experience haptic and sound feedback when scooping hot rice - alerting them that the rice is too hot to consume