I have just completed my sharpener project, display board. I required an extension to the deadline due to swine flu. However, I am now fully recovered and although off for 3 weeks I have only fallen 1 week hand-in behind and shall be up-to-date after tomorrow. Anyway, the sharpener project was a good start of the year project, with a basic thought process and mostly sketch work. We were not allowed to use CAD within this project and just had to produce a final design. Mine is fairly basic, called push and spin, due to the action required whilst using it. You need to push in the 'wings' which pushes the blades onto the pencil and then you spin the pencil to sharpen. This is ideal for preventing lead ends getting trapped as well as being very child friendly as they are less likely to slit their fingers if they push them into the hole.
I have enjoyed the project a lot, but am looking forward to starting a more adventurous design idea. The next project is future transportation, which is a small group project. I cannot wait for this to start and really want to get a hard working group which will push me to do better, as well as letting me motivate them. A lot of my best work is produced whilst in a group as I am a good team leader and enjoy taking a leading role, however, I can sit back if I am needed to and take a very hard working team professional attitude. I want my group to be able to communicate effectively, work well together and produce an exciting, conceptual new idea.
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