January 6, 2016

Today while designing the foot sole part of our brace, I came up with the idea to possibly be able to get rid of the sole that goes in the shoe altogether. The calf part of the brace can instead be attached to any shoe and still provide the user with the same assistance because now the shoe itself is acting as the sole that is attached to the rest of the brace. Also this way, the costs can be cut because the majority of the product is the one section which is 3D printed. We will explore this idea and most likely design two products, one with the sole that fits inside the shoe and one in which the shoe is used as the "sole" itself (this will require a semi-custom/adjustable attachment to work with different types of shoes/sizes which will need to be made out of durable material and a strap to secure the shoe). After we have concrete prototypes for each, we will begin exploring the actual functionality and how our elastic-adjustment will work.
-Naomi

This will be printed