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The purpose of the Art Stamper is to allow students requiring a wheelchair for mobility at Spring Creek Elementary School to create art on the ground from their wheelchair or other mobile assistive device. To develop the Art Stamper a team of three students in the freshman level Introduction to Engineering Design course at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga set a goal to design a product that is inexpensive and easy to operate as well as entertaining and educational for the students. The team used several brainstorming techniques during the original solution generation, including rich pictures, morphological charts, and pairwise comparison. The exercise of using these techniques allowed the team to choose a solution that best fits the customer’s needs. The resulting Art Stamper consists of four main parts – handle, sensory feedback encasement, stamper head, and chalk holder. The handle is an adjustable painted metal broom handle with generic threads that fit most broom attachments as well as most paint roller attachments. The feedback encasement is a spring encasement screwed into the broom handle which provides tension and sensory feedback, The stamper head attaches to the feedback encasement and accommodates both ink and paint stamps. There are 23 ink stamps, consisting of an assortment of zoo and water animals, and 14 paint stamps of assorted basic shapes. The chalk holder also attaches to the feedback encasement. The Art Stamper cost approximately $40 and all parts can be purchased from a chain hardware store. This allows the customer to easily replace parts or replicate the design. The collection of paint and ink stamps cost less than $20. The team delivered three Art Stampers to Spring Creek Elementary School.
Author(s):
Michael LePage
College of Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
United States
Jonathan Burkeen
College of Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
United States
Brandon Roberts
College of Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
United States