Week 8

This week the group concentrated on finalizing the prototype as well as correcting any problems in the final report and preparing for the final presentation. The draft of the final draft had at this point already been submitted, so the group worked to fix any errors or omissions which the grader had noticed. We also had a practice presentation in Week Nine, so at this point we had to put together our slideshow and decide who would talk about which sections. This week the group also concentrated on adding a more exact description of the design to the final report. This description will be added to the Project Overview and the Design Description tabs when complete. The design is still in concept stages, as the main focus of this project was in research, rather than development.

One problem encountered when building a prototype was that the size we tried to make was much too large. The prototype was very unwieldy and small errors in the angles of the arms meant that the points did not actually meet at the center. Because of this the group decided to make a smaller, easier to handle prototype which would look less impressive, but which would work better and be easier to make.