About a month into my four-month internship, I began phase 1 of overhauling Ella’s handlebar design. My phase 1 design objectives were to: Here I am trying to get a sense for how it would feel to hold. I ended up walking to a local baby store and trying out a bunch of normal stroller…

Before my time at the company, several UBC students had designed and produced molds and cured prepreg carbon fiber frame components for Ella, using bladder-molded machined aluminum molds. GluxKind wanted to evaluate the feasibility of using off-the-shelf pultruded and roll-wrapped carbon fiber tubing instead, and I set out to find some answers. Indeed, OTS tubes…

Being at a small startup, it always helps if you can wear multiple hats! My dabbling in Blender and Visual Effects came in handy when we needed to produce renders of Ella for our website and social media. Here’s what I did: Next, we wanted animations of Ella showing key features! For this, I: Design…

One of the first projects I was given at GluxKind was to redesign the stroller’s central joint to be made from 3d printed plastic as opposed to CNC-machined aluminum parts. Many of the features that made this design possible relied on circlips, spring washers, pins, and precise machining. My goal was to retain the exact…