Drill bits pile up in educational shops due to the high traffic of students every day.
Bits are classified in fractional, metric or imperial decimal, and number or letter. There are over 400 sizes of drill bits.
Current measuring methods are both imprecise and time consuming (taking from 8 to 20 seconds each).
We developed two concepts with similar mechanisms to measure the diameter of a drill bit in a faster and more precise way than current methods.
At the same time, our team began to conceptualize how the encasing of our final product would look like, and how users would interact with it.
Finally, BitDex was created.
A storyboard to show how the product should be used.
A representation of how the screen interacts with the user.
And another representation of how BitDex presents to the user the identified dril bit information, such as Bit diameter, Bit size/classification, and suggested Tap size.
We presented our product to the whole MIT community, and allowed people to try it out for themselves. It's so straightforward to use that even children had fun with it.
Demoing the product during our final presentation.
Part of the demo, currently showing how to use the drill bit cleaner.
Finally, I would like to thank the whole Silver Team for such an awesome job with BitDex.
***MIT 2.009 Silver Team - 2013***
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BitDex
MIT's 2.009 MechE Senior Design Class.
An optical drill bit identification device.
Intended to be used in machine shops to help organize drill bits and make sure the drill bit being used is of the right size.
