Zip Tie Cutter Project - NASA TSGC & Micro-g Engr Design Challenges (with testing at NASA-NBL!)

*GOING TO SPACE! 8/5/2018 update: Great news: Team CERO's design WILL BE used by NASA at the International Space Station next year! "it will be the first Micro-g NExT tool ever used in orbit. Its first slated use will be during the repair of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)" -- check out the article published by NASA-JSC:
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NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) Engineering Design Challenge Project and NASA Micro-g NExT Design Challenge.
Lone Star College Team C.E.R.O, 2017 -2018 Zip Tie Cutter Project Semester 2 of 2.
Our team successfully designed and prototyped a zip tie cutter suitable for EVA applications.
We won 1st BEST DESIGN TEAM at the Spring 2018 TSGC showcase. We also successfully tested our prototype at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL) where NASA trains astronauts with micro-gravity simulated by buoyancy.
CAD was done in SOLIDWORKS.
Team member: Daniel Vasek (Leader), Francesca Liso (Deputy Leader), Maria Gonzalez, Sean Palmer and James Philippi.
Team C.E.R.O. thanks former team members:
Dylan Robbins, DeJuan Miller, Ryan Gomez and Elijah Salandanan!
Acknowledgement
This project is sponsored by the Texas Space Grant Consortium, facilitated by Dr. Tim Urban and Ms. Talia Jurgens. Advisors: Dr. Yiheng Wang & Mr. Jared Cammon (LSC-CyFair).
Team C.E.R.O thanks our NASA mentor Elizabeth Blome (NASA), Michael Young, Bill Arnold (LSC-Cypress Center) and Jason Graesser for their help. Team C.E.R.O. also thanks Hernan Solis from Panduit for donating zip ties.
Special thanks to Sond Industries Inc for generously sharing their time, materials and expertise with us during our manufacturing process.

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Great news: Team CERO's design WILL BE used by NASA at the International Space Station next year! "it will be the first Micro-g NExT tool ever used in orbit. Its first slated use will be during the repair of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)" -- check out the article published by NASA-JSC: