MICROSCOPE PHONE ADAPTOR

Seattle Children's Research Institute

Another project commissioned by the Transfusion Services department, this one for confirming issues between departments. Unexpected results were showing up in the slides of the microscopes, but another department needed a picture to confirm. I was told to design an adapter for the microscopes that could stabilize phones enough to take a picture, as existing products were too expensive to justify buying.

Microscope Phone Adaptor: Projects

Technically speaking, I was still a part of Transfusion Services when I began this project. It was through this project that I was introduced to the Imagination Lab, and eventually began to work their on medical devices. After designing the first iteration of the device and getting it checked by my boss, we went off to get access to the 3D printers that Imagination Lab had. There we met with the head of the lab. From there we went through a few more iterations before landing on the final product being uesd currently.

Microscope Phone Adaptor: Text

Microscope Phone Adaptor: Image

This experience was the first that I had with the lab, along with my first with 3D printing. Although I had CAD experience from my classes, we had never moved on to actually create anything. Understanding machining tolerances is quite different from actually experiencing them. Luckily tolerances were not critical for this design, so the prints went smoothly enough. The hardest part to get used to was that the error was never the same between prints, parts could be smaller in one print and larger in another.

Microscope Phone Adaptor: Text