Developing design ideas further, using understanding of mechanisms

Design and technology

Use of equipment that may require supervision for safety, eg. scissors, needles, paint, knives

A short card strip used to keep the lever and linkage mechanisms in place.

When a paper fastener joins card strips to the backing card.

When a paper fastener joins card strips together.

A set of related mechanisms used to create an outcome.

Where materials or components are connected to make movement.

It keeps the lever and linkage mechanisms in place.

Why is using a bridge in your design important?

It adds important information to help with the making process.

Why is adding annotation to a final design important?

To convince someone to do or believe something through reasoning or temptation.

To give extra information about a mechanism.

An early model of the product, designed to test the concept or process.

So you can experiment and change your design to improve its function.

Why is it important to produce a prototype?

What part of the scissors are the levers?

A flexible bar which is fixed to a point.

A large bar which hold the structure of the product.