Enabling agile rapid product development in K12 classrooms by enhancing an educational exoskeleton
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2021-06
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The Product Development Module of the CYBATHLON @school series brings rapid prototyping, hardware and software development to regular school lessons or project weeks, combines it with entrepreneurship and fosters inclusion of people with disabilities. Engineering students and persons with disabilities conduct the units. Pupils aged 12 to 18 team up in their virtual startup and identify day-to-day issues of a person with a paralyzed arm. They develop solutions to mitigate those challenges with the help an assistive technology, the educational exoskeleton Flexo. They use modern rapid prototyping technologies to iteratively develop a gripper for the Flexo, using special software-assisted laser cutting and 3D printing. A knowledge integrated software interface helps them to program it using Python. The teams present their grippers in a final competition. Preliminary feedback suggests that the module is well received.
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Proceedings of 5th FabLearn Europe / MakeEd Conference 2021
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24
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Association for Computing Machinery
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5th FabLearn Europe / MakeED Conference 2021
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Engineering education; Design education; Technology enabling; Product development simulation; K-12; STEM; Inclusion