Your project
Brainstorming your ideas
So you have a copy of the project requirements, and the list of specifications, but your design right now is a piece of blank paper ... where do you start?
Uddin talks here about how to brainstorm different aspects of the design, just to get started.
Bearing in mind the project brief for the mechanical device in this unit, try to come up with a couple of ideas (no matter how wacky they might seem!) each for:
System for the device
Materials for the device
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