Inventions and Inventors: Evaluation

Evaluation
Adjustable Weight (dumbbell)
The overall progress went well, the idea also. I think that I did a good job, but there were some problems too. Such as following the plan, designing, writing the progress down and coming up with a product which is realistic.
Designing the product was hard because in my mind, I have only one design of a weight which is just a typical one, so I had to check a lot of things like going through the internet to find the other designs. I didn’t really copy the designs on the internet; since our product is different I just took ideas. Then, I had enough ideas so, it became easy make other designs, which made me come up with the perfect design, which was our final design.
Following the plan was hard to, especially when I lost my presentation and then I had to start it again, so we didn’t have time to finish it, so we hurried a lot, then we realized that we are done, so we managed to do everything down, but we forgot about writing the progress. So, we had to write the changes and progress after finishing everything.
To make everything better, I’d try to not lose things, because it is the main reason why everything went wrong. And the survey, I think I surveyed only few people, if I could survey more people and get more ideas, I probably would do better than this.
Our idea was really realistic and the same time unique because not everyone would like to do a dumbbell for handicapped people. So the function and the way the whole thing is set up is easy to understand and very helpful. And some people also tried to do the similar thing, but only our of rock and plastic bags which wont weigh too much, but still, it’s the same idea.
The presentation went well, I think. The reason why I think it went well is because we explained everything we needed to, and the whole idea was easy too understand. Some people actually gave really good comments and they liked it a lot, which was a good thing to hear.
The AOI for this unit is human ingenuity, since it a man made “creation”. Even though it was an invention, but we made it better and we enjoyed it. So we kind of developed the dumbbell in other words. So we think by this invention, life can get easier, and especially health.
So the unit went well, and we learned a lot of things, and are group work was great.