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Choosing an idea





This past Friday we had our first team meeting! We each came up with five to ten potential yo-yo designs and pitched it to the group. Here were some of the original ideas and sketches we made!


To help us narrow down our decisions, we came up with some design criteria that were important to us. We decided that our yo-yo needed to be creative, exciting, functional, and feasible. Using our design criteria and through some difficult voting, we finally narrowed it down to four. Amazingly and by sheer luck, each of us had an idea picked to be in the final four, which made it easy to split up the work! Over the weekend, each of us designed our own idea. Here were the four finalists!



 

Works of art if you ask me. Finally, today, we chose the design we would be making for the rest of the semester. We really like all of the ideas and ultimately voted (via the very scientific Facebook Messenger poll) with the polaroid because it was creative but hopefully still straightforward with opportunity to make moving parts (maybe we can springload an actual polaroid). We like to call this...the Yo-laroid! Stay tuned for further updated on the Yo-laroid!




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