Winner of “Best Overall Design” in RIT Industrial Design’s 2024 T-Minus Challenge
Slide Guide
A collaboration with Blue Heart Hero though RIT’s T-minus challenge, the Slide Guide is designed to be an inexpensive, 3D printable accessibility tool to help people with limited hand dexterity use ID card readers more easily
This project was created for T-Minus, a yearly group project ran by RIT’s Industrial Design program where teams are given a week to create a project for a sponsor. This year’s sponsor was Blue Heart Hero, an organization that maintains a library of open source, 3d printable accessibility items.
In this team project, I led in the creation and and printing of the 3d models, and assisted with the research and presentation.
At RIT, students and teachers must swipe their IDs to enter locked rooms and buildings. This can be challenging for those with limited dexterity. My team decided to design a guide to make swiping a card easier.
Our initial designs were wall mounted, but we changed to a design that tension-fit onto the reader itself.
The Slide Guide was modeled in Fusion, and is dimensioned to fit the card readers used at RIT. The dimensions can be modified to fit other readers.
It can be printed with no supports and basic settings in just over 2 hours and takes only 27 grams of filament, making it an easy and accessible print, even to those with little to no 3d printing experience.
