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  Building the project - Part 1

  Once we have designed every component of our project and tested its functionality, it was time to put it all together. In order to do this, we first designed a prototype of a rig using solidworks to simulate what it could actually look like. The following image is a CAD of the prototyped which we would lasercut using acrylic:

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  Software Design and its relation to our Hardware

  Our hardware consists of two transducers: a force-to-resistance transducer, and a displacement-to-inductance transducer. Both of these transducers take a mechanical property and create a physical change which can be observed and measured in a circuit.

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  The Motivating Problem

  One of the biggest problems in orthopedic hip implant surgery is the so-called “taper disaster.” A hip implant looks like this: