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**Title:** Building a Custom Exoskeleton (Leg Brace) for a Dog Named Scraps
**Background:** Scraps, a 3-year-old dog, is missing a leg and showing signs of discomfort in her back leg, prompting her owner to seek a solution.
**Objective:** Create a custom exoskeleton (leg brace) to support Scraps' back leg, improving her mobility and reducing discomfort.
**Key Events:**
1. **Research & Planning:** Owner explores solutions for dogs with mobility issues, deciding on a custom leg brace with a single motor.
2. **Prototyping & Training:**
* Initial leg brace prototype is too bulky.
* Owner attempts to train Scraps to wear a harness (to potentially hold electronics) but faces resistance.
* A revised approach attaches the setup to Scraps' collar, then back to the leg brace.
3. **Successful Iteration:** A refined leg brace with a motor is created, allowing for adjustable torque via phone connection.
4. **Testing:** Scraps comfortably uses the final leg brace prototype, with the owner planning to monitor its effectiveness over time, using outputted data to assess her leg movement.
**Outcome:** A successful, custom exoskeleton (leg brace) is developed, with the potential to improve Scraps' quality of life.
Here are the extracted key facts, each with a number and in short sentences, excluding opinions:
1. **Project Goal**: Building an exoskeleton for a dog named Scraps.
2. **Dog's Condition**: Scraps is missing a leg and experiences strain on her back leg.
3. **Age of Dog**: Scraps is approximately 3 years old.
4. **Initial Approach**: Exploring current solutions for dogs with mobility issues, aside from wheelchairs.
5. **Mention of Prosthetic Limbs**: A vet in the UK creates prosthetic limbs for dogs and cats, sparking an ethical debate.
6. **First Step in Project**: Capturing slow-motion footage of Scraps running to analyze her gait.
7. **Initial Design Decision**: Deciding to make a leg brace with a single motor on the knee joint to act like a spring.
8. **Training Process**: Gradually training Scraps to wear a normal fabric leg brace.
9. **Number of Training Sessions to Success**: It took 6 training sessions for Scraps to accept the fabric leg brace.
10. **Challenge with Harness**: Scraps dislikes wearing harnesses, complicating the project.
11. **Use of Body Doubles**: Utilizing body doubles for prototyping to avoid constant leg brace adjustments on Scraps.
12. **Sponsorship**: The project is sponsored by Kiwico, which offers STEM project kits for various ages.
13. **Project Evolution**: Multiple iterations (2.0, 3.0, 4.0, final) of the leg brace design.
14. **Technical Adjustment**: Shortening cables to improve the setup.
15. **Safety Feature**: The ability to connect the setup to a phone to gradually increase torque for safety.
16. **Data Collection**: The setup outputs data on how Scraps' leg moves over time.
17. **Project Monitoring**: Planning to monitor the effectiveness of the leg brace over a couple of weeks.