Prototype Planning


Hi all!

The next part of our project was the prototyping! We were very excited of this because now we can make our idea of the Smart Chair come life. We started with planning how and from what material would we make the prototype. First, we played with idea of making a real size chair but we quickly discarded that because it would take way too much time and material to make. Then we came up with idea of making it doll size so it could be tested in a way. This got support from everyone in our team and we chose to with that.

When we had confirmed the size we are working with, it was time for actual plan of the what would the prototype look and what features would it have. The basic features should be that it is chair were someone can sit and that is can be turned in the treadmill. We also decided to add the table feature because these three will showcase our main idea. After long discussion we decided to make the proto from cardboard. It would be the easiest material to work with and was easily available for us. To end this first planning session of the proto we draw sketch of the chair from different angles. We also draw the parts needed for the it so the building would be easy as possible. To make sure we remember to take everything to the actual building session we did list of things we need.

Sketch




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