Friday, September 24, 2010

Reflection - Prototype

1. What are the difficulties that you have encountered during the process?

I realised that I did not know how to build the mechanism of the product. Although I knew that the mechanism has been built before (that of an umbrella), but I do not know how to build it.

2. How do you overcome the difficulties encountered?

I replaced the mechanism for something easier. There is a metal stick connecting the button to the binding of the legs. When the elderly pushes this metal stick down, the binding slips down and will retract the legs. To extract the legs, the elderly simply has to pull the metal stick up so that the binding will slip up and the legs will be extracted.

3. What are the 2 key takeaways for this lesson?

I learnt that we have to plan ahead of time and what are some considerations when building our product.

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